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A weekend of cheering for Tangle wood

TANGLEWOOD FESTI?
VAL OF CONTEMPO-
RARY MUSIC — works of
Crumb, Essyad, Griffes,
Ives, Jolas, McKinley, Riley,
Rochberg and Stock, per-
formed Saturday and Sun-
day by members of the
Berkshire Music Center, the
Boston Symphony Orches-
tra, Seiji Ozawa conducting,
soprano Phyllis Bryn-Jul-
son, and violinist Isaac
Stern. j ,

ByMicfeifgtei?^/^

Globe Staff

LENOX — Audiences for
the Festival of Contempo-
rary Music sponsored here

<each August by the
Berkshire Music Center and
the Fromm Music Founda-
tion don't usually stand up
and cheer, but Saturday
afternoon, at the opening of .
this year's session, they did
in a big way. What turned
them on was Betsy Jolas'
witty and sensuous Quartet

.2, stunningly performed by

REVIEW/MUSIC

soprano Elizabeth Parcells,'
violinist Arthur Zadinsky,
violist Penelope Knuth, and
cellist David Heiss.

The voice is an instru-
ment here, articulating
sounds tantalizingly on the
verge of intelligible speech
(with, finally, a delightful
' throwaway joke). Its
separateness is acknowl-
edged, even dramatized, by
a couple of cadenzas, but es-
sentially the singer is a
member of the ensemble,
conversing on equal terms
(she sits where the first vio-
linist usually would). The
topic of conversation is.
trills, trills slow and fast,
regular and irregular, nar-
row and wide, and at the
end all four get together on
a trill as they have been
trying to all along.

The quartet is a festival of m

ensemble virtuosity, and I
shouldn't think anything
exists more difficult for co-
loratura soprano. The group
gave a performance at once
beautifully blended and dis-
tinct, and of exemplary deli-
cacy. Elizabeth Parcells left
us amazed and delighted at -
her bravura — those trills in
sevenths are not something
you hear any where and any
day — her musicality, and
the glow that is beginning
to warm the brightness of
her voice.

Twice more, these open-
ing concerts became excit-
ing. At the, end of Saturday
afternoon a superb sextet
under the direction of Mi-
• chael Pratt played "Paint-
ings No. 2" by William
McKinley, who teaches at
the New England Conserva-
tory. There are five small
but rich panels, one to de-
pict each season, and an epi-
logue that touches again the
moods and sounds of all
four. It is music of changes,

dense, nervous, delicate, ex-
quisitely timed, and with a
sense of music as magic

At his best, George
Crumb commands magic
like none of our contempo-
raries. For me, the four pro-
cessionals of "Echoes of
' Time and The River," which
were on Saturday's Boston
Symphony program, are.
mostly mannerism and sur-
face. "Vox Balaenae" (the
voice of the whale), on the
other hand, is one of the
wonders of recent music.
Much of what makes- it
touching and spell-binding
it owes to the whale songs
that it translates into
human music, but it be-
comes a finely imagined,
coherent, intensely com-
municative statement.

It was performed Sunday
morning by flutist Stephan-
ie Jutt (who had already
distinguished herself in the
McKinley "Paintings"); cel-
list Sato Knudsen, and pia-

nist Christopher O'Riley.
What these musicians gave
in virtuosity, insight, con-
centration, and not least in
those matters of deportment
that are so crucial in
Crumb's theatrical composi-
tions, not only made a won-
derful projection of the
work but was something
moving in itself. Enthusi-
asm was great after br,th
Crumb performances, and
like Jolas and McKinley, the
composer was here to bow
repeatedly with the players.

For the rest, we had the
premiere of David Stocky
"Dreamwinds" for wind
quintet, an altogether un-
dreamy structure of severe-
ly unadorned blocks with
interesting edges; i

"Sultanes" by the Moroccan
composer Ahmed Essyad, a

.clean work for tape alone,
whose mixing of an Arab's
herdsman's chant with pure
studio sounds fascinated

•without always convincing;
Dennis Riley's Concertino,

"another premiere, repre-
senting pleasantly and in-
stantly forgettably the new
prettiness; Charles ToT'tiTW
son. Griffes' 1918 songs on
poems by Fiona McLeod;
Brangaene's Warning, He-
bridean Mists, both with
French accent, beautifully
delivered by Phyllis Bryn-
Julson and the BSO under
Seiji Ozawa; and George
Rochberg's counter-revolu-
tionary violin concerto with
Isaac Stern as soloist.

CHARLES T. GRI

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