Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full time resident. The variety of conducting styles to which it has been subjected is almost unbelievable, but the orchestra has held up well. Expecting an orchestra to put out a top flight performance of five different programs on five consecutive nights with a strange conductor and a strange soloist is absurd. The strangeness produced inferior results from all of the participants. Serkin's performances on the first few nights were wooden and incompatible with the orchestra, and the BSO, in its turn, was unused to Rudolf's distinctive style. Naturally, the performances did little to enhance the reputations...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Harvard Glee Club will be coming together March 20 to perform a typically difficult and varied program: Josquin, Poulance, Handl, Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," and the Brahms "Alto Rhapsody." The soloist for the "Rhapsody" is Mildred Miller from the Metropotitan Opera...
Grumpy Greeting. Boldly Shostakovich chose to compose his 13th symphony, basing it on Babi Yar. The 60-minute composition had five movements. Utilizing a large male chorus and a baritone soloist, Shostakovich used the complete poem for his first movement, choosing other Evtushenko verses for the remaining four. The 1962 Moscow premiere was an unequivocal public success. Government reaction was a different matter. Pravda treated the symphony with near silence-a grumpy one-line sentence to the effect that the performance had taken place. There were no reviews. The composition was withdrawn for ideological repairs. With a few lines added...