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...also wants to do "something worth while." So far, he has composed music for a one-act ballet, a rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Adds André: "There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure...
This week, Manhattan concertgoers heard his latest oddity-a piece called Shatokh. Against a low rich moan of the violin, the piano sounded like one of the ancient Armenian zither-and lute-like instruments (kanoon, saz) that Hovhaness likes to imitate: there was little else but pluck-like repeated notes, connected occasionally by eddying swirls of sound. Suddenly, when it was about to verge on monotony, Shatakh just ended...
...next liberty taken by Mr. Woodworth was that of cutting the rich instrumental score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...
This regulation saddens the people who run the Oxford Grille because they believe in sentimental and sudsey songs. A cheery spot, just off the Square and "known from coast to coast," the O.G. did have a violin and piano until 1942; but some always complained because the music never changed. A Community Singing License was refused about the same time, and so spontaneous music left the Grille, and a juke box took over...
...something of a formality to add that Kirkpatrick, on the harpsichord, and Schneider, on the violin, performed with unusual sensitivity and balance. Harpsichord or no harpsichord, Mozart, Bach, and Scarlatti can sound as they did last week only when played by uncommonly fine artists...