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...program opened with Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, which conductor Michael Senturia kept at once precise and full-blooded, with especially rich, driving tone from the cellos. It was too bad the original idea of using recorders fell through, but no one could have wished for finer flute playing than that of Cynthia Crain and Fritz Kraber. Ruth Miller was mostly successful with the fiendishly difficult solo violin part, and the performance as a whole came within only a few slips in intonation of being masterful...
...students decided to end the concert with a tribute to their teacher in the form of Professor Piston's own Sonata for Flute and Piano, performed by flutist William Grass and pianist Tan Crone. Piston is one of those rare men who can teach as well through example as through words. This sonata, a relatively early work (1930), showed Piston to be already an impeccable craftsmen. All three movements were skilfully wrought in traditional shapes of almost Mozartean clarity, albeit on a mainly contrapuntal basis. The performance, however, was no more than adequate; Mr. Grass was definitely not "The Incredible...
...much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio, and a few days later the whole family took part in a concert at Hiroshima Public Hall...
...Full of Flute. Composer Laderman stumbled onto his technique one night after hearing a flutist friend give a fine recital. Laderman returned home so "full of flute" that he sat up all night composing. As he wrote, he began to visualize dance images. Rather than lose them, he improvised dance notations above the musical staff to correspond with the flute solo. Next morning he found that the notations accurately recalled the dance images. He took the score, now titled Duet for Flute and Dancer, to Dancer-Choreographer Jean Erdman, asked that she choreograph...
...Choreographer Erdman, Laderman found a musical partner who was not concerned by the emotional restrictions placed on her work. At the first rehearsal she read the annotated dance score aloud (da-da-da-da, da-di-da-di) to see how its rhythms keyed with those of the flute. Then she translated the rhythms into movements. The completed Duet, premiered last year, was an elegant, admirably contained piece. Last week's far more complex work, also choreographed by Jean Erdman, was a wittily detailed examination of the love life of a voraciously modern woman and a hesitantly questing male...