Word: parts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely lulled into acceptance by the screen's warm colors and the Brahms music on the soundtrack...
Fair enough. But might I add that these critics ought not be cheap: they ought not feign surprise at a college dean who expects most women to be, either full-time or part-time, housekeepers and child rearers. They also ought to be consistent: the venom at von Stade might well be tossed too at their own daddies...
Boston has never been fertile territory for clarinetists. The clarinet situation in the Boston Symphony was an open scandal for many years, until Harold Wright took the first chair this year. Wright established himself as a fine soloist with his performance of the clarinet part in Piston's Second Symphony with the BSO earlier this year. In the Mozart A Major Clarinet Concerto, K. 622, last Sunday night, he demonstrated his exceptional talent quite well. There were a few problems with the performance, however. Wright had some slight mechanical problem with his instrument from the second movement on, which forced...
...Dumbarton Oaks for their thirtieth wedding anniversary. It is a light, lively piece, charming and remarkably entertaining. The piece is particularly taxing on the brasses and woodwinds, and they performed beautifully. The Concerto deliberately parallels the third Brandenburg in many ways, especially in the opening theme and the three part violin and viola sections. But, although it parallels the Bach piece, it does not resemble it, nor is it based on Bach in the way that Lukas Foss's Baroque Variations...
...interpretation was for the most part weighty, and usually geared to the mood of the piece. Schneider is a musician who understands Mozart, and interprets this piece much in the manner of Bruno Waiter. He did a truly fine...