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This device has succeeded, I think, because the listener is less aware of the individual parts than the way in which all four cohere. Moreover, the work grows in a natural fashion and the quick, epigrammatic changes of feeling do not pull it apart at the seams. Still, I did...
What's more, enlargement of the musical audience has further complicated the conflict between radical and conservative by superimposing upon it the polarization of the popular and the esoteric. Because this new audience has a sizable influence in what is played and recorded, music must lessen the gap between the...
Several critics have taken Copland to task for immobile writing that has no organic development, and such a long work as this (it lasts an uninterrupted 30 minutes) is extremely susceptible to this flaw. Copland himself admits to willful use of a similar structure; he once said that "the composer...
The most immediately appealing work on the program was also one of the earliest-Suite from "The Black Maskers," written as accompaniment to Leonid Andreyev's drama when Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string...
Apart from his talent for picking good material and good talent, he knows how to keep alive shows that are too sickly (or, occasionally, too good) to attract audiences by themselves. His own best flack, Merrick uses up pressagents like paper towels. For Clutterbuck, his first show, he had "Mr...