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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...
This exaggeration is apparent, for example, in the coda of the first movement, where a gratuitous quarter-rest is added just before the orchestra bounces, fortissimo, into a repetition of the characteristic rhythmical figure. It becomes distortion when the famous theme of the choral movement enters pianissimo where Beethoven has explicitly stated piano...
...highlight of the evening for me was Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
...audience by the arm and points out the simple charms of Grover's Corners. He introduce the Gibb's and the Webbs; Joe Crowell, the paper boy; Howie Newsome, the milkman. He shows you Simno Stimson, the drunkard organist, whose life is like a pathetic symphony with a tragic coda. These are the common folk of "Our Town," brought to life you by a sincere and enthusiastic cast. You may find faults; there are moments when Rowland Bishop's Dr.Gibbs is just a little over pompous; there are scenes where Virginia Thoms's Emily Webb tends to excessive bashfulness...
MUSIC : HEROIC AND MAJESTIC . . . SUCH AS CODA OR FINALE OF BEETHOVEN'S EROICA...