Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beethoven and Hindemith, horn sonatas, 5:30. March 4. Chamber Music, Duesenberry. Pace, Peyton, Petrassi. Boulez, Ives, Martinu. Bartok. 3, March...
Conductor James Yannatos presented an unusually vigorous selection of works, fortunate in view of the late hour. The program opened with a Bela Bartok suite of Rumanian folk dances orchestrated in 1917 by the composer from the piano solo version. The orchestral playing was excellent; big, clear, and confident. The pizzicato passages were especially impressive for their precision of execution by such a large group. But for content, the Bartok was not satisfying as an opener because the sketches are extremely short and lack formal compositional unity...
...world during the past two decades, he has shown that his heart is as old-fashioned as was Szell's. Cleveland listeners may expect large doses of the 19th century (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky), snippets of Baroque (Bach, mostly) and careful slices of the 20th century (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Bartok). Thus the Maazel appointment means that Cleveland intends to continue its Old World ways, with one important exception: Maazel (born in Paris of California parents) is only the second American, after Leonard Bernstein, ever to head one of the five top orchestras...
...Coppelia, to The River, a bluesy work by Modern Dancer Alvin Ailey. The company diligently polishes up a few new ballets each season. In addition to Paquita and Tudor's restaging of Romeo, the current novelties include Ulf Gadd's choreography of The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok's horrific musical study in sadism, and an airy piece called Mendelssohn Symphony by a promising dancer-choreographer, Dennis Nahat...
Other composers, for Munves, do not include serialists or the majority of post-Bartok contemporaries, who he feels have no mass-market appeal. "I simply cannot go on taking a bath for those guys," he says. "Only four or five of them are writing for the people. Like Lenny Bernstein. I think West Side Story is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century because it combines the classics with the vernacular." Munves particularly mourns the disappearance of good old-fashioned melody. When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only...