Word: coda
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...very competent group of performers were outstanding. Paul DesMarais played Copland's difficult Variations for Piano with finesse and precision. The work consists of a theme, eighteen separate but closely related variations, and a coda, and seems to be an intellectual exercise as much as an expression of emotion. Possibly the best work on the program, it abounds in sudden shifts of tempo, tonalities, and dynamics...