Word: minor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted to an expanded chamber group...
Friday night's short but challenging program featured Landon Young as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. His performance gave a continual impression of control and breadth, of getting far above the notes and phrases to achieve a coherent interpretation of each movement. There was a satisfying bigness about his reading that fitted this concerto perfectly, while not sloughing over the more lyrical passages. The second theme of the opening movement, particularly, with its appealing soulfulness, had a tender, longing quality without being sentimental. One could have wished for just a little less deliberateness...
They walked onto the Carnegie Hall stage hand in hand, as they had so often in the past. At first, in the Brahms Sonata in D Minor, they played a little tentatively, feeling their way with care. But by the time they got to Bartok's Sonata No. 1, the violin was soaring with impassioned assurance and the piano was spinning a lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...minor art form, genre is now largely superseded by photography, a similar and also minor art form. But in the mid-19th century, a host of American journeymen-artists practiced genre painting with extraordinary success. The rising middle class of the period paid well and cheerfully for competent pictures of the things to be seen through their own windows: Drawing a Bead on a Woodchuck, Cornhusking, The German Immigrant Enquiring His Way, The Organ Grinder, The Sailor's Wedding. All that seems quaint about such pictures helped give them a soothing familiarity in their own time. The passing generations...
...effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used as was bootleg gin in the '203), but his book gives no sure sign that the wreck is under effective repair...