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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
NEWS OF MUSIC
Thomas Mcintosh
Wins More LoureIs

hardly surprising in view
of the fact that he was then
an aspiring teen-ager.
Now he appears to be a
budding young artist, and his
next appearance on the local
scene will be watched with
keen interest.
y
Another young Washing
tonian, the soprano, Hope
Haley, who was awarded the
1860 National Society of
Arts and Letters prize for
voice, has just picked up her
third scholarship in the past
three months.
The latest scholarship. at
the Aspen Musical Festival
and Music School in cool
Colorado, enables her to study
voice with one of our towns
favorite' artists, Adele Addi-
son.
Meanwhile, at Baltimore,
an anonymous donor has
made possible an unusual
series of chamber orchestra
concerts in selected colleges,
universities, secondary
schools and public centers.
Twenty concerts are to be
presented during the first
year of the programs opera
ton. The whole thing will
be administered and ,Spon-
sored by Goucher College and
will feature an orchestra
. composed of selected mem
bers of the Baltimore SYM
phony Orchestra and the
Peabody Conservatory fac
ulty. playing under the di-
rection of Elliott w. Galkin,
who becomes chairman of the
Department of Music at
Goucher next month.
There are several out-of-
Extraordinary aspects to the
program. Each concert will
feature a young American
soloist: each program will
feature works of unusual
musicological interest and
first performances of COM
positions by young American
composers. Goucher even
hopes to have the program
notes written by young mu-
sicologistS.
Furthermore, the concerts
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are planned to extend the
normal earning capacity of
the Baltimore Symphony men
by providing them with en-
ployment during the dol
drums after the season ends
in March.
The first concert was sue
ceSsfully given last Thurs
day at the Baltimore Museum
of Art and another is sched-
uled for August %.
u y
Officially, the Hayes con-
cert season opens at Uline
Arena on September u with
the Coldstream Guards, but
the first Constitution Hall
event takes place four days
later when Leonard Bern
stein and his New York Phil
harmonic. one day removed
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lex Gift

Harper's Ferry, West Vir-
ginia, is the recipient of a
gift of Is framed oil paint
ings by Washington artist
Garnet Jex. He presented
them to the community "in
recollection of many pleas
ant days among charming
streets and buildings, beside
the rivers. and upon the hills;
in appreciation of the hos
pitality of townspeople and
the companionship of artist
friends who have painted
there"
These paintings cover a
period of 35 years. Mr.. JeX
found Harper's Ferry "a
wonderful place to paint"
long before it was "discov-
cred" by a sufficient number
of painters to turn it into an
artists colony. Mr.. Jex be-
gan painting it before the
depression, through the
floods of 1886 and after, and
into the new era of restora-
ton by the National Park
Service. All the paintings
have been exhibited, with
the Society of Washington
Artists, the Landscape and
Arts Clubs of Washington,
the American Art League and
other groups. Representing
various periods and aspects
through these years, this
group of paintings is but
small proportion of the
many Mr.. Jex has painted
in Harper's Ferry; the ma
jority acquired by private
collectors.
The collection, including
paintings up to 30 by SO
inches in size, each with a
brass plate giving title and
date, now hangs in a beauti-
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TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL
500, WASH-FM 1911 Nc

500, WASH-FM 1911 Me-
MaSterworks of Music. Wag-
ner's Tannhauser Overture.
$3.50, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1875 McD-The Mas
ter's Violin. Beethoven's
Sonata No. 10 in G.. Opus 90.
1915, WGMS AM-FM $50 nc.
and 1885 Me- - Sunday
Morning Symphony. Respi-
ghi's Antique Dances and
Airs, Suite No. 2.
HOO, WASH-FM (97.1 Mel
Music of Distinction. Bee
thoven's Symphony No. 7 in
A.
2:O5, WGMS AM-FM $50 nc
1898 Me- Boston Pops
Orchestra. Bruch's Violin
Concerto No. l in G Minor
800, WASH-FM (97.1 Me-
Sunday Symphony. Men,
delssohn's Calm Sea and
Prosperous Voyage Over
ture.
1900, WMAL-FM (107.3 Nc
Concert Stage. The Last
Spring, Opus "a, No. 2, by
Grieg.
1908, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc
and 1885 McD-Guest Con-
ductor. The favorite music
of Henry Cabot Lodge, Re-
publican Vice Presidential
nominee, which includes the
classics and DiXieland jazz.
500, WMAL-FM (107.3 Mc.)-
Opera Stage. Peter Grimes
by Britten, complete.
500, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc
and 1885 Me- - FeStiva.
CaSals, 1860. Dvorak's Cello
Concerto in B Minor.
1890, WRC-Symphopy for {
Sunday evening. Williams
Symphony No. l in D Major
HOO, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
Serenade. The Tale of the
Tsar Saltan-Suite, Opus 81
by RimSky-KorSakov.
! 1901. WWDC Music TT
Dawn. TSchaikowsky's Sym
phony No. S.
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large modern figurative paint
ing is unlike anything US
ually seen at the club. The
lady, a wooden type enthroned
on a blue chair, looks at a
replica in blue, of her own
face enlarged. Mention went
to Ruth Vests April" a
cool street scene with blurred
figures in a rain-and-sun at
mosphere.
Paintings / liked (beSides
three of the winners) include
landscapes: Odell Wooten's
'Fjordes." blue-green still
ness; Garnet Jex' beautiful
"Foldboats on the Potomac;
Helen E. Townsend's simple
Mountain Church" Cat Blue
Ridge Summit; Polly Kit
telle's "Whitrey, England"
(old houses on a river; and
Carolyn Conley's Roof Gar
den." Harbor, ETC.: Margue-
rite Skaters Massachusetts,
Coast; Roger Rittase's bal
anced Gloucester Harbor,"
and Martha Bache's "Poto-
macs Yesterdays" (the van
ished fishwharves). Por-
traits: by Helen Minifie of
Mrs. Felix de Weldon; by
Elizabeth Curtis; Mrs. Lewis
Clephane's girl in mauve;
and John Landry'S head of
an elderly woman. Graphics
are few; I liked Isabella
Walkers block prints and
John Landry's pencil draw
ingS.
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SALZBURG. REPORT
New FestspieInous Praised

troll. but she has not vet
learned to reach into the
great lady's heart and project
her moods, and her anguish.
Hide Gueden, after meas
uring the pc Eer of the or
chestra, did her capable best
as Sophie, and Edelmann's
Baron Ochs was hearty
without becoming too gross
except for a grim passage
with Mariandel during the
first act trio. Erich Kunz
gave the ridiculous Faninal
some welcome gravity; Hide
Rossl-Maj dan was a bonus
as Annina; tiny, comical
Renato Ercolani made a new
man of Valzacchi.
Pros and Cons
Karajan's care in reshap-
ing every detail of the staging
resulted in many happy
tauches, especially in the first
act, but slow tempt accumu-
lated to make the third act
drag. However. for a first
performance on an untried
stage, the general polish was
remarkable, and when the
final curtain call was blotted
out in red velvet, the Salz-
burg Festival had added an
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NEWS OF MUSIC
BY IRVING LOWENS
Contributing Writer

Young Americans continue
to take prizes in virtuosity
throughout the world.
The most recent winner of
a major prize is the youthful
Washington pianist Thomas
Mcintosh, who began his ca
reer here in 1851 as a toddler.
appearing with the National
Symphony Orchestra in the
Children's Concert Series.
Since then. young McIn-
tosh has given a pair Of Town
Hall recitals, has been heard
locally at the Phillips and
National Galleries, and has
been a scholarship student at
the Juilliard School and, more
recently, at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg.
Wins Unusual Award
Mr.. Mcintosh has now
capped his brief career by
picking up the Kranichstein
Music Prize, a rather unusual
award in that it is given for
excellence in the perform
ance of new music.
Each year at DarmStadt in
Germany, KranichStein Prizes
are awarded in conjunction
with an international sum-
mer course in contemporary
music, usually in piano,
piano-duo and cello divisions.
In 1860 no finaliStS were
chosen among duo-pianists.
and no celliSt managed to
gain a first prize award, but
Mr.. Mcintosh did himself
proud IN the solo piano class.
The repertory requirements
included one set piece. the
f1ercely difficult set of five
KlavierStuecke, Op. 90, by
Arnold Schoenberg, and two
contemporary large works
selected by the competitor.
Mr.. Mcintosh chose to offer
tas well as the Schoenberg)
the Prokofieff Sonata, OPP.
80. and the Roger Sessions
From My Diary" set, as tax
ing a group as an virtuoso
would care to tangle with.
In his last Washington ap-
pearances. Mr.. Mcintosh
showed clear signs of his
great talent as we'll as GER
tain immaturities in approach
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PROGRAMS OF THE WEEK

tor Soloists: Richard Balm, har-
monica, The COrnet Trio: Ben
Mitchell Morris. tenor; Frank
ScimoneIli, posthorn. Watergate,
$40 pm. Wing Of Victory March
Ventre; Dance of the Hours from
La Gioconda. Ponchielli; Rou-
manian Rhapsody No. |, Enesco-
Boyer; Sandpaper Ballet, Ander-
son; The Typewriter, Anderson
The Three Blueiackets, Williams;
Irving Berlin Medley, arr. Raven;
Victory at Sea, Rodgers; Prize
Song from Die MeiSterSinger,
Wagner; Decision in WoodwindS,
HyneS; The New Post Horn Galop,
Barsotti: o Brother Man, Ring
waid: The Lords Prayer, Malotte
Raven
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full high-ceilinged room, well
lighted. 1t is the recreation
hall of century-old Camp
Hill Methodist Church, near
the top Of the main street in
the old town. Various organ
izations of the community
meet there.
Five Sundays ago July
10 Mr.. Jex formally pre-
ssnted his gift at an open
house, attended by a hun
dred or more visitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Record Critic

Jan Tomasow, who used to
be the concertmaster Of the
National Symphony Orchestra,
has been busily attaching his
name to recordings of music
by Italian composers of the
18th and 18th centuries.
This is a sensible course
Of action. Most violin viz
tuosos don't pay very much
attention to anything but the
familiar pieces by Bach, Bee
thoven, Brahms and a few
other big-name composers.
Mr.. Tomasow. therefore, by
keeping clear Of the over
travelled main thoroughfare
is not only advancing his own
career effectively but also
performing a useful public
service.
The most ambitious of re-
cent Tomasow endeavors. a
three-disc Vanguard-Bac
Guild edition of Viyaldi's
L'Estro Armonico concerto
collection, displays playing OF
vitality and technical suavity.
The IL concert grossi by the
prolific Venetian, six of
which were appropriated by
Bach in adaptations which
testify to their musical worth,
also stand forth in glowing,
meticulouSly monitored high
fidelity sound produced under
the leadership of Mario Rossi
in the Brahms Saal OF
Vienna's Musikverein.
Will Boskowski, concert
master of the Vienna Phil
harmonic. and other talented
players ably augment the
Tomasow contribution in the
concertos calling for addi-
tional soloiStS.
Sunny SOnatas
Though less imposing. a
discful of sonatas in which
the solo violin is augmented
by harpsichordist Anton
HELLER is to me particularly
attractive. The music, sunny,
warm and quite delightful,
bears the names of Vivaldi,
Vital, Albinoni, Marcello
and Tartini.
Similarly refreshing are a
gracious concerto by Pietro
Nardini, another of the
Italian melodists, and two by
Tartini in which Viennese
instrumentalistS join the
Tomasow violin on a disc
mellif1uouSly labeled "A Bou-
! quet of Tartini and Nardini
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TUESDAY

UNITED STATES ARMY BAND. Cant.
Samuel LOboda, conductor. SolpistS:
Anna May Courtney, soprano; Terry
JENNINGS, tenor; Alan Crowell. bass
Watergate, $50 pm. Entry of the
Flying Dutchman. WAGNER; Mcclure.
from American Sketches, GriSelle;
Excerpts from the Pines of Rome.
Respighi: Selections fl ON Oklahoma,
Rodgers; Triumphal March from
Quo VadiS Rosa: Selections by the
United States Army Chorus; Act 8,
Faust, GOunod
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Chinese KIee

Gao Wou-Ki is seen in a
retrospective one-man show
at Franz Bader Gallery, 1705
G street NV. through Au-
gust 27. Twenty-six prints,
Autographs and a few etch-
ings, are numbered and
signed by the artist, who has
been represented here in
earlier group shows. A mono
graph about him by Claude
Roy is available for the pub
lie; if a visitor has time to
read only a few pages, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
BY CONSTANCE MELLEN


While the Capital City of
the United States continues
to remain lacking even a sin
gle auditorium where grand
opera can be adequately
mounted, little Salzburg
Pop. 100000 last July Is
opened the doors of its new
Festival House-the fourth
indoor stage available for its
world-famed, flve-week sum-
mer festival.
The premiere performance
was of Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier," under
the baton of Herbert Won
Karajan. DistinguiShe d
guests from far and near, in
Guiding the President of Aus
tria and the cabinet, were
present, and when the con-
ductor picked up his baton
at TAO pm. almost contin-
uous ceremonies had already
been under way for about II
hours.
improbable Setting
usually, the Festspielhaus
is a weird tumble of pseudo
modern styles. Looking up,
one sees a series of gray
overlapping arches, diminish
ing in size toward the stake,
and punctured at intervals
by holes for spotlights.
The eye slides from this
engine-room effect to ponder
the delicate mauves of the
handpainted ceiling. the side
wall paneling of light and
dark woods, the lilac uphol-
stery. the blue carpeting and
the burning crimson curtain
charred with vague designs
in black.
The frescoes in the lounges
are avant-garde of the 192Os
except for a good Kokoschka,
and the main lobby has
rough cement pillars to match
the exterior of the house.
The whole is improbably
ugly.
But later, when the light
went down for "Rosenkav-
alier" and the music began,
everything worked.
Acoustics Perfect
The acoustics were perfect
solid. not sharp-and the
sight lines were clear from
every seat in the steeply ris-
ing auditorium. The arches
vanished. and with no de-
fined proscenium, the stage
and audience room became
one. With the side areas of
the 100-foot stage blanketed
in blackness, and the pol
ished floors of the sets re-
flecting the singers. the
scenery appeared to float in
space.
Teo Otto's settings were
all-out baroque-white and
gold and crimson-and the
cast was undoubtedly the best
qualified in every respect that
could be a S S e m b ! e d from
, among today's "Rosenkava-
lier" specialists.
The role of Octavian fit
Sena Jurinac like a glove.
She gave to the 17-year -old
nobleman the sophistication
of his era, a dignif1ed sense
of humor, and manlike per-
plexity at the Marchallin's
whims. Her voice flowed eff
fortlessly over the decor and
the huge orchestra.
Lisa della Casa's Marchal-
lin was vocally dazzling.
Karajan's coaching had given
her added authority and con-
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TODAY

UNITED STATES MARINE BAND. 1t.
Col. Albert Schoepper, conductor
Soloists: James Taylor, cornet; Leo
Fink, SaXophone; Donald Landaas
accordion; william Jones, baritone
Watergate, $40 pm. Fanfare and
Allegro, Williams; Here Katy.
Hubay jolly Selections from the
Fortune Teller, Herbert: Rapsod!e
Welcomes BaSta; Jericho, Gould
March. Teike; Concerto in A. Oeiro:
ValSe de Concert, Glazounow; Nemico
della patria, from Andrea Chenier.
Giordano-Jolly: Overture to Tam
hauSer Wagner
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Two FromaArgentino

Marcelo Bonevardi and
Fernando Maza, objective
painters from Buenos Aires.
Argentina. have a Joint ex-
hibition at the Pan American
Uni o n through t h S
week. Both are young, both
are studying and working in
New York City on scholar
ships. All the paintings in
this initial presentation in
Washington of either artists
work were done in New York.
Despite these fortuitous
similarities in their back
grounds. their paintings are
contrasts. Bonevardi's group
of IA divides sharply between
last year and this. Eight of
his paintings (mostly 1852
have simple structures of
slashing heavy black stripes
framing circles and rectangles
of emphatic primary colors.
Six paintings done this year
are monochromatic. with very
dark blue and black fiat
areas Illuminated with faint
SpatterS of mustard or other
lighter colors.
Fernando Maza's group of
II oils, all executed this year,
have meShes of thin straight
and scrubbed black lines
against Illuminated grounds.
They have poetic appeal, and
conveyed a definite theme to
me, although to say such q
thing seems to enrage some
abstract painters. At any rate,
some of Maza's paintings sug-
gested harbors crowded with
masts of sailing vessels, the
water glowing as with re-
f1ected sun, moon or harbor
lights.
(Open weekdays 9 to S;
Sunday l to So
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NEW OPENINGS

FOURTH BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF
CREATIVE CRAFTS Natural His
tory Museum, Constitution avenue
at 10th Street NV. This evening
through September s.
PAINTINGS BY HAROLD FONSECA
Collectors Gallery, 1873 Wisconsin
Avenue NV. Wednesday through
September T.
GROUP EXHIBITION NO. . OF AMER
ICAN PRINTMAKERS. I F A Gal
lerieS, 26@3 Connecticut Avenue N W
Wednesday throush September !
GROUP EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
AND POTTERY. 800" Mt Vernon,
Arlandria. Current through August.
EXHIBITION BY CURTIS, FOSTER
AND HAMMOND. The Art Shop and
Gallery, S9O9 Georgia Avenue. Sill
yer Spring. Current through August
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FRIDAY

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
STRINGS. Capt. John +. Yesu-
laitis, conductor. SolOiStS: Sammy
NeSticO, trombone; Ken Eshelman.
trumpet; Duff Thomas, baritone.
Watergate,. $50 pm. A night OF
contrasts in popular music and
''TopS in Jazz with Airmen OF
Note" directed by Johnny OSeekee.
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BEETHOVENIAN BACH

Record collectors increas-
ingly have more than the
musicologists' word for it to
prove that more than one
Bach had something signifi-
cant to say.
In the case of Karl Phillip
Emanuel, Johann's second
son, a Westminster disc
underscores the point with
four sonatas written between
1853 and 1877 ii. e., contem-
poraneously with Haydn and
Mozart. These, more than
anything else, sound not like
Haydn or Johann Sebastian
Bach but observation-disclosures
first Sonatas were yet to
arrive on the scene.
Karl Phillip wrote his pro-
phetic pieces not for harpsi-
chord but for "forte-piano,"
giving substance to the pia-
nissimo-fortissimo dynamic
range and other expressive
modernities embodied in their
pages. Nina Milkina, a West
Europe-trained Russian. per-
forms ably.
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ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
Creative Art Crafts
Opens This Evening
By FLORENCE s. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The Fourth Biennial Exhibition OF Creative Crafts to
open this evening the foyer of the Natural History Mu-
Constitution and 10th street NV promises
be asvared and delightful its predecessors judging by
glimpse had of during its installation Demonstrations
by members of the six sponsoring crafsmen's groups will
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Art Film

Each Sunday this month
the National Gallery of Art
is presenting in the lecture
hall at 4, a film on the Gal
lery entitled Art in the
Western World" with the
television film Time Enough
to See a World"
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SATURDAY

JEAN SLATER EDISON. organ. ST.
Johns Church, Lafayette SQUARE,
S pm. Music by Bach, Reger,
Plum, and Rowley.
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THURSDAY

UNITED STAT EaS NAVY BAND,
CWO Anthony Mitchell, conduc-
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Arts Club Members

Members classified as
painters, sculptors and graph
ic artists may submit work to
be on display to September
9" in the Arts Club, 2017 I
street NV.
This notice in the June
bulletin of the club was long
overdue for the annual mem
bers' summer juried show,
which year after year has in
cluded not only work by
members in spatial arts class
ifications, but recreational
works by musical, literary.
dramatic and lay members.
This gave the summer shows
an amateurish air.
The current show is better
and smaller (35 works in con-
trast to the 40 or so of for
mer shows. Whatever faults
one may find with some of
the paintings here, these oils,
water colorS and prints are the
products of persons admitted
to membership as proficient
in painting, graphics or sculp-
ture.
Still Life Awards
Still life has hypnotic eff
feet on Arts Club Jurors.
Again. as last winter. top
awards were bestowed on
paintings of such themes and
very pleasing they are. But
there are equally good paint
ings in other subject catego-
ries which would have pro-
vided a little variety. Theo-
dora Kane's oil Fruit and
Magnolia Leaves" 1sD has
such virtues as fresh colors,
diagonal composition and va
riety of shapes. Gladys Mill
igan's water color "Old Stat
Yorkshire" (2d) is modern
underStatement. Third award
went to Douglas Teller's
Young Lady with a White
Cat" it is difficult to see
why, unless it is because this
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Opening night at the Salzburg Festspielhaus,
with Lisa della Casa remembered here for
her outstanding performance in the Opera
Society of Washington production of "Ariadne
auf. Naxos') as the Marchallin, and Sena
Jurlnac as Octavian in Der ROsenkavalier"
Photograph courtesy P. S. F.
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TURNTABLE TALK
Tomosow REEVES
Music Of ItoIy

VI. L nv ANoA wa -
once was lauded by Mozart's
father Leopold, and one can
suppose that Wolfgang ANA
deus knew it. too. 1t does
the Italian composer, who
served as concertmaster in
Stuttgart for a time. no dis
credit to have won COM
mendation from a Mozart.
Vanguard's recent services
to baroque music also en-
brace a three-diSc set of Co.
relli'S dozen Op. 6 concerti
grossi-the eighth being the
celebrated Christmas Con-
certo"-ably presented by a
Copenhagen chamber group
under Jorgen Ernst Hansen.
On a separate disc one can
sample No. ! of the Corelli
sequence plus trio sonatas by
Vivaldi and Sammartini, a
concerto by Torelli and a sim
fonia by Alessandro Stradella,
the Sammartini employing a
pair of solo recorders. And
on another, several instru-
mental works are supplement-
ed by brief tenor cantatas
by Stradella and Alessandro
Scarlatti, pleasingly sung by
NielS Brincker.
Tandem Horns
Those leaning to music for
other than Stringed inStru-
ments will find lively diver
sion in two unusual concertos
for pairs of French horns on
an Angel Vivaldi disc. Horn
music, virtually ipso facto, is
fun, and these pieces are no
exception. Two of the L'EStro
Armonico concertos are also
on the record, which uses the
aptly named Virtuoso di
Roma.
Francesca Antonio Bon
port, a talented late 18th
early 18th century composer
of concertos and soratas,
some of whose works have
been attributed to Bach. is
represented on an Epic record
employing the ensem b ! e
known as I Musici. Four con-
certos are offered, and they
make pleasant hearing.
The compositions of the
early Italians lack the drama
of Beethoven and the tonal
grandeur of Wagner or Rich
ard Strauss, and they prob
ably are not everybody's dish
of tea. But they have their
own distinctions. The more
recordings there are around,
the more admirers there are
sure to be.
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