Word: dallapiccola
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...well as the Manhattan School of Music. Both, he says, were among the most influential experiences in his life. His formal education in music did not end there, however, as Yannatos went on to study composition with the likes of French composer Nadia Boulanger and Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola and conducting with William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein...
...devotion to his craft that is inimitable and really a model for all musicians.” Before teaching, Donald Martino studied at Syracuse University and at Princeton, where his mentors included composers Milton Babbitt and Rogers Sessions. Afterwards, he studied on a Fulbright fellowship in Florence with Luigi Dallapiccola, known as a Modernist master. Martino seemed to view music from a different perspective even from his fellow bohemian-like artists, said his fellow musician and roommate at Syracuse, Roy Lazarus. Not only did he take a special pride in the appearance of his works, handwriting his manuscripts in India...
...first half ended with an excellent performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's Due Studi, an early serial work full of surprises, such as a major triad that appears to come out of nowhere. The second movement of the piece, "Fanfara e Fuga," served as a perfect vehicle for Schulte's dexterous playing...
...defuse any violent reaction to the composer's contemporary style: "The piece is accessible to anyone who will open his or her ears and listen carefully to it, giving it as much attention as a film with a complex plot." This was correct in one respect: listening to Dallapiccola's Variations invoked the sensation of watching last year's Mission: Impossible. No matter how much one tried to pay attention to the plot's convolutions, one was continually plagued by the question, "What is going on?" while the sole consolation was the star quality of the actors. The performing members...
Friday's finale proved no less majestic than the Dvorak of November, even though the orchestra had had less time in which to prepare their repertoire. Even the Dallapiccola pieces were bearable, if only for the novelty of watching Randall Hodgkinson and the talented orchestra attack the variations. Variety is, after all, the spice of life...