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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pivotal Notes. Foss began to construct a system built around a series of pre-agreed pivotal notes and a system of letters that indicated what roles the various instruments were to assume at differ ent times. Now he has abandoned the idea of pivotal notes, but the group still starts with "a certain musical vision," worked out in countless rehearsals and set down in graphs and Foss's own specially devised symbols. "If we hit something good," says Foss, "we try to remember it. If something bad, we try to forget it." The technique, insist the players...
Foss and his group of composer-performers, known as the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, appeared at Carnegie Hall last week with the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...
...Philharmonic this week. Between numbers, Foss's ensemble will do improvised "commentaries" on the songs. With the spread of controlled improvisation, Foss thinks the day may come when a typical concert will begin with bits of Bartok or Beethoven and, in between, feature the members of a chamber group spinning out their own trackless flights of fancy...
...risks faze Chicago's big Continental Casualty Co. It pioneered in life insurance for United Nations truce teams, drivers in the Indianapolis 500 and health insurance for the aged. This week Continental announced it would cross another frontier: group dental insurance...
Despite the higher bills, Continental reckons that it will be able to provide group dental coverage for "something less than $100 per year per family." There will be a deductible feature: during the first year, the first three members of a family will have to pay the initial $25 of the dental bill; Continental pays 60% to 80% of the rest of the bill up to a maximum of $500 per family. After the first year, the benefits become more liberal, and the deductible payments drop...