It met with considerably less success than the Rhapsodies - because of its modern harmonic language and apparently meandering structure, it was greeted with catcalls and boos by the audience. Wallez studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux and then with Sergiu Celibidache. William Bolcom's Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra is still finding new audiences 25 years after its premiere. Entirely different again is the Flute Concerto that Petrassi composed in for Severino Gazzelloni, a single-movement canvas both innovative in form and scored with fastidious, ear-pricking subtlety the unusual instrumentation eschews violins, violas, flutes and oboes, and incorporates a very large percussion section as well as harp and guitar. His output was sizeable and extended way beyond the organ loft of Saint-Sulpice.
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