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George Barati: Siring Quartet (California Quartet; Contemporary). A fairly brief three-movement work by Hungarian-born Composer Barati, who is also the quartet's cellist. The three movements are consistently thoughtful, occasionally warm, once or twice fiery in a moderately dissonant idiom. Good performance...
Establishment of a new jazz society, whose purpose is "to create an atmosphere here at Harvard that will foster an appreciation of the idiom," was announced last night by its provisional president, Thomas B. Wilson, Jr. '54. The faculty sponsors will be Walter H. Piston '24, professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, Jr., head section man in Music...
Professor G. Wallace Woodworth has done even more than bring before the University a musically sensitive and technically accomplished choral organization. Under his direction, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Ohoral Society, last Friday presented a concert which brought to life a musical idiom almost four centuries old. For two hours a capacity Sanders Theatre audience found itself immersed in the musical language of the "Golden Age" of choral music, and their repeated ovations made it clear that they found the experience both illuminating and thrilling...
...compositions written considerably after the sixteenth century were, in fact, performed, but the late Renaissance idiom so strongly pervaded the evening that I, for one, found myself judging these other works by 16th century standards. Thus Verdi's setting of Dante's Hymn to the Virgin Mary seemed maudlin after the more ethereal fervency of Palestrina. I do not know whether Verdi's melodramatic climaxes and sensuous cadences are inherently unsuited for religious music, but their operatic association have certainly made them so for me. Even Mozart did not fare well in such company, perhaps because the firmly established tonalities...
...premiere of two movements from a piano concerto composed by Joel Mandelbaum for the soloist, Ann Besser. The concerto is written in the same key (A) as two others performed on the program, the Liszt and the Schuman. And though Mr. Mandelbaum does not wholly shun the contemporary idiom, in spirit his work is much like those two showpieces of the Romantic era. Miss Besser's performance, by its technical perfection as well as its penetration of the music showed the work off to excellent advantage...