[...]
If anything, Ancerl and the orchestra did even better work in the other
two items on last night's Toronto Symphony program: Oskar Morawetz'
Sinfonietta for Strings (which was receiving its first public
performance) and Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, K. 543.
Morawetz' Sinfonietta is a highly effective piece of string writing
that works over its ideas logically and with a degree of clarity
that permits ready comprehension. The audience was understandably
warm toward it. No problems of atonality or textural complexity
had been thrown its way.
[...]
