Abstract

Music
Haggin, B. H. | April 7, 1956 issue

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The author listened to the program in which the artist Leonard Bernstein conducted the Symphony of the Air; for he was hearing, in each piece, creating an object, this one the self-developing organism of a work of musical sound, and was observing with what assured mastery he did so. The creative mastery was evident at every point in the early Firebird Suite, though most impressively so, perhaps, in the two-plane construction of the marvelous transition from the Berceuse to the finale. It was evident also in the moment-to-moment operation of the perversely rhythmed Carpriccio for piano and orchestra, in the employment of the grim ostinatos and monumental vocal styles of Oedipus Rex.

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MUSIC; PIANO; ORCHESTRA; BERNSTEIN, Leonard, 1918-1990; OEDIPUS Rex (Music); SYMPHONY
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