Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baseball Cantata. U.S. concertgoers may not yet realize what they could be in for. Tired of the usual fare of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok? How about a 90-minute multimedia work based on the Krazy Kat cartoon strip? Roger Reynolds, 40, is creating such a work at the University of California at San Diego. A baseball cantata based on Casey at the Bat? Pulitizer Prizewinner William Schuman, 64, is warming that one up. There has been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight...
Works of Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert, Catherine Kautsky, piano; Holmes Living Room...
Music of Ravel, Bach, Bartok, Chopin; Tanya Bartevyan, planist; Dunster Library; 5:30; free...
...average audience," said Violinist Matthew Raimondi last week. That remark out of the way, Raimondi and the other members of the Composers String Quartet went out onto a stage at Columbia University and performed the three best and most difficult string quartets written since the time of Bela Bartok. They are by Composer Elliott Carter, and the trio of works have a collective age of 44 years. Yet no group had ever played all or even two of them at one sitting; scheduling even one is a calculated risk. The recital was a sellout. So was the second, held...
Piano and violin recital by Arlene and Robert Portney. Works of Bach, Bartok. Beethoven, Liszt, Franck. Free. Sunday, April...