Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ACTIONS of the mutineers reflected this belief in local control. After electing a Provisional Revolutionary Committee and imprisoning the prominent loyal Bolsheviks that remained in the area, they adopted their own rations, set their own rules, and began to enact an already agreed-upon political program: the creation of a strong, independent, self-governing soviet that guaranteed extensive intellectual and personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never...
...bill of fare Monday was a fine example of balanced programming, from baroque to contemporary, although it concentrated on established composers. The opening piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 34 in C. Major, K 388, went well. It is in three movements, not a major work by any means, but an interesting idea. This work was accompanied by some silly program notes apologizing for it because, the writer says, compared to Beethoven "Mozart emerges as a trivial blank," when judged emotionally. I suppose program note writers have to make a living, just like everyone else...
...second piece on the program, the Bartok Divertimento for String Orchestra was extremely well done. This three movement piece is highly symmetrical, very mature Bartok, composed in 1939. It's movements, Allegro non troop, Molto adagio, and adagio assai. are quite transparent, the first a rough sonata form, the second consisting of three figures, the first identical to the last, and the third a rondo. The amazing virtuosity of the violin sections was made abundantly clear in this work, especially in the third movement...
...FINAL WORK on the program, Kirchner's own Music for Orchestra, is an intriguing piece commissioned for the 125th anniversary of the New York Philharmonic last year. While I have not seen the score, I would say that it seems closer to the better Messiaen than to Lutoslawski, as the program notes suggest. It is an exuberant though occasionally muddy piece, with a few aleatory passages which give some freedom of choice to the performers...
...goal drew nearer, it seemed less important. Gone was the romance of seven heroes and their weapons named Atlas. Mercury, rockets which blew up on the pad or went haywire and threatened to devastate peaceful Florida towns unless destroyed by Mission Control. The space program grew at a tremendous rate, overtaking the Russians and overtaking itself to the point where three men died in a dreadful fire during a ground test. Space became business for corporations and convenience for the housewife. After political interferences, the men in the program had changed as well. They could not manage to get their...