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Via Gleam is a stately, classical sinfonietta that can be read-rather like a simplified musical score-from top to bottom. It opens with a four-note theme of palest yellows made of three narrow stripes and followed by a wider one-much like the "V for Victory" opening of...
The Chorus was the joy of the evening, especially the soprano, singing with considerable excellence in the Andante Maestoso and the final Prestissimo sections. Only the Chorus adumbrated some sense of the Oppolinian sweep and profundity of Beethoven's greatst testament.
The opening work, Haydn's Symphony No. 83, was the evening's most enjoyable. With the exception of the demanding Andante, whose repeats could well have been omitted, the orchestra played with excellent ensemble, acceptable intonation, and gratifying vitality. Conductor John Adams maintained rapport with his musicians, shaping each passage...
Methodical violin playing, too many moments of imprecise ensemble, and a lack of metrical relaxation, especially in detached quaver figures, severely qualified the final work, Mozart's Symphony No. 29. I think that this was primarily due to simple orchestral fatigue after an especially strenuous program. The Andante, however, was...
It's all so cute and comfortable! We're in first class ($4,120 for our double stateroom), and guess what they call our deck? The Allegro. There are other levels, known as Adagio, Vivace, Andante, all the way down to the water level, which is called Presto...