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...from that most insular of insularities, Quincy House, comes Opus. Edited by Alexis Viereck and Newton Kershaw, it is a tidy collection of prose and poetry by six previously unpublished students. Any local magazine would do well to look as attractive, and most would be improved by including some of its best pieces...
Like most of the current crop, Lane's book is essentially a staggering accumulation of minutiae and half-truths based on minutiae. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, himself a critic of the commission, has dismissed Lane's opus as "peripheral and indiscriminate," concluded: "Great trial lawyers, like great detectives, have an instinct for the jugular; Mr. Lane has an instinct for the capillaries...
...ambiguous impression: it is never clear whether it is a chamber group, a small symphony orchestra, or simply a label under which disparate musical activities take place. The first half of last Saturday's concert ranged from Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture to the same composer's Wind Octet, Opus 103. Conductor Daniel Hathaway kept the orchestra precisely together throughout Coriolanus, but many of the opportunities for playing back and forth between parts were muffed. He might have had better luck at a faster tempo. However, the orchestra's total sound was impressively rich, exceeding what I would have expected from...
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici...
BRITTEN: SINFONIETTA, OPUS 1 and HINDEMITH: OCTET (1957-58) (London). Very early Britten-facile and mannered-before he methodically stripped his musical imagination down to its sparest, starkest forms. It is charming, almost pretty music, and vastly different from the sophisticated complexities of the Hindemith, in which key themes are introduced, transposed in various ways, and then replayed in reverse order. Handled with elan by members of the Vienna Octet...