Guillermo Figueroa violin, viola, conductor Festival Music Director. Since 2007, Figueroa has delighted audiences as Festival Music Director and Conductor. He was recently appointed Principal Conductor of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Music Director of the Lynn Philharmonic at the prestigious Lynn Conservatory in Florida.
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Miss Maximilien's enjoying was individual and sensitive, but it just skipped the kind of projective power appeared for in a putrlic„efficiency. The traces of a phrase would be slightly understated, or a rhythm might not he accented strongly good enough. A bolder declaration of her interpretive tips would possess produced the recital actually more enjoyable than it was.
The pianist offered the signature of Nel DaCosta.'beds “Extempore Glowing blue,” a great distillation of blues style into a contemporary compositional design.
RAYMOND ERICSON
Marian Thompson Sings Wolf Recital
It will take a fair quantity of private self-confidence to schedule an all Hugo Wolf recital, and excellent interpretive assurance to provide it off. Marian Thompson displayed both characteristics at City Hall on Wed night with a system neatly split into groupings: four songs to Goethe texts, five of the Morike Lieder, seven items from the “Italienisches Liederbuch,” and so on.
The soprano provides a grown voice, sometimes given to edginess, not really really mixed plenty of in timbre to explore all the intricacies of the 25 Wolf tunes on her listing. Skip Thompson husbands her sources intelligently, even though, singing always with tasteful musicianship and cautious projection of the poetic texts. Her shows thus create up in spectacular conviction what they may general shortage in pure elegance of audio.
Skip Thompson, for example, experienced the ardor and nearly operatic strength to convey the enthusiasm of “Kennst du das Land,” the constraint to underscore the mild buoyancy of “Morgentau” and the serenity, if not the unlimited tenderness needed for “In dem Schatten meiner Locken.” A special delight has been “Epiphanies,” with its witty, marcjilike delineations of the Three Kings.
Donald Hassard was Miss Thompson's delicate, fluent companion at the piano.
ROBERT SHERMAN
Julio Rosario Sings In Varying Moods
Julio Rosario is definitely a man of numerous parts-both in summer season share and at the Lighting Opera of Ny, where he provides been presented In Gilbert and Sullivan productions for even more than two decades right now -and Mon night time, the baritone shown however another factor of his skill with a brief, attractively balanced concert plan at Carnegie Recital Hall.
Mr. Rosarlo's stage manner was calm; he along with set up a range of dramatic moods, and when he decided to go with music with which he seemed entirely comfortable, his forthright performances rang genuine. Mainly these were the pieces in Romance language and English, including folks‐song plans by Montsalvatge and Obradors, Jean Berger's “Four Sonnets by Luis de Camlens” and a wonderful place of “Blue Mountain Ballads” (to text messages of Tn Williams) by John Bowles.
In the other repertory, Mr. Rosario'beds restrictions as a conjunction artist were more evident. His tone of voice is darkish and sturdy, but a wide vibrato in the lower sign up maintained to diffuse the tone, offering a fairly muddy quality to Marcello't “H mio bel foco” and a set of Handel arias. His singing also provides only humble shadings of color, without the tonal and powerful technicalities to capture the subleties of five.beautiful songs by Gabriel Faure.
The able pianist had been George Malloy.
ROBERT SHERMAN
Guillermo Figueroa In a Violin Debut
The “Concert Musicians of Puerto Rico” series at Carnegie Recital Corridor ended its season Thursday night with a flourish-and a beguiling 1 at that when Guillermo Figueroa Junior. trouped in with family and close friends to bring in himself and his violin enjoying to New York.
Little Mister. Figueroa can be just finishing work at the Juilliard School for a bachelors's education, which he will get in Summer, but his violin abilities and musicianship are usually nicely past the student stage, and his sparkle ‐ for overall performance may have got become with him constantly.
He started with nothing at all much less than a Mozart concerto (No. 1 in N smooth, K. 207), which he performed with an orchestra of youthful co-workers from, Juilliard. He bending as soloist and conductor, and the result was wonderful. The playing was expert, and the ease and efficiency with which the outfit and Mister. Figueroa worked together produced one question why established symphony orchestras possess to create such big deals out of their shows of Mozart concertos.
The Figueroa family joined into the show at the finish with shows of twoPuerto Rican dances, “Carmen” and “Duva,” made up by Jesus Figueroa, Mr. Guillermo't grandfather. In these shows, the violinist was became a member of by his brother‐inlaw, Yosef Yankelev, also a violinist, ‘ and his aunt; Yvonne Figueroa, a pianist…
The items were simple and active and offered as a prelude for. Sarasate's i9000 “Navarra,” a Spanish language dance for two violins and piano. It can be a marvelous piece, stuffed with all types of tracks and shades, and the three music artists played it to a convert.
The program also incorporated Ysaye's i9000 Sonata in G small for Unaccompanied Violin, which Mister. Figueroa do in a masterly way from both technical and interpretive standpoints, and Bartok's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Keyboard. The Bart6k emerged off well in conditions of notes, but this listener got the feeling that it was not Mister. Figueroa's musical mug of tea. The pianist for this work was Yoko Nozaki.
ALLEN HUGHES