Word: adamses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It has taken acts of peculiar genius over the last five months by Sir Sydney Caine, outgoing Director of the LSE, and his allies, to bring the unquestioned authority of the School Administration into a state of seige. Their actions have had a common theme: contempt for the student's...
But no such thoughts here. Saturday night, conductor F. John Adams exploded this musical myth and several others. In addition to mounting the Mozart-Sussmayr Requiem complete, Adams had Robert Levin compose an Amen fugue to follow the sequence Dies irae. Levin's fugue was based on fragments left by...
Performing the Requiem was a carefully picked group of musicians. Adams recruited the chorus of sixty from the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the University Choir. The modest orchestra da chiesa contained some of Harvard's most respected undergraduate musicians. Of the four soloists, soprano Carlotta Wilsen conducts the...
This was truly a Harvard requiem--and an excellent one. Conductor Adams brought a superbly disciplined ensemble to St. Paul's and managed to overcome the church's infamous reverberation problems by rigorously controlling volume and by taking tempos somewhat slower than those usually heard on recording.
Adams knows how to save his performers' potential for the proper moment, and he is able to achieve the most striking dynamic effects without the least exaggeration or grotesquerie. He elicited a performance that was clear and enunciatorily precise even in the most complex fugal passages. He was also sensitive...