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...moderate-sized audience turned up at Sanders Theatre Monday evening for a concert of music for violin and piano, sponsored by the Summer School. The artists for the occasion were violinist Dorothy Bales and pianist Gregory Tucker...
...evening's novelty was Tucker's own Suite for Violin and Piano (1956). This four-movement work is a good deal more serious in character than most suites; it even dares to end with a slow movement. Though modern in style, it is still quite tonal, and its varied timbres are always fascinating...
...certainly possible. For a sound-making device, they intend to use a Levavasseur whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from a jet aircraft...
Having sponsored a concert of piano trios two weeks ago, the Summer School offered this Monday evening a program of music for the much rarer combination of violin and 'cello, a sparse medium that inflicts a good many special problems on the composer...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...