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Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...
Following the Purcell opus on the program is Slyck's "Variations," after which the Sodality has scheduled five variants from Williams' "Dives and Lazarus." Winding up the evening's proceedings will be "Danse des Bouffons" from "Snegourotchka," by Rimsky-Korsakov...
Shubert's String Quartet Opus 161, Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat, Opus 18, and a piece written by Barati in 1944 in honor of Mrs. Coolidge, will comprise the program Sunday...
Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francaise," written to commemorate the liberation of France by the underground and the Allied armies, will feature the program, and a short dance by Shostakovitch, Prokofieff's Opus 99 "March," and F. W. Meacham's well-known "American patrol" complete the band's emergence as a primarily musical group...