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...lovely dark tone in Bach's Sonata No. 2. He also kept his volume down so that the right hand of the piano, which is equal to the flute in trio sonata style, could be heard. In Bach's Second Violin Sonata Michael Day played with admirable musicianship; Bertram Baldwin accompanied at the harpsichord. Violinist David Hurwitz closed his part of the concert with a fine performance of Handel's Sonata in F. He played with restraint and a warm tone, and was ably assisted by Jonathan Thackeray, harpsichord, and Mary Davidoff, continuo...
...Bertram Baldwin's Quartet was very promising. Although there was some mixing of styles during the piece, it had fine strong moments that indicated a real talent. The performances in this concert were of high caliber; Soprano Sarah Jane Smith and Cellist Lawrence Lesser were especially outstanding...
From my point of view as a music major, Bertram Baldwin's review of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert was based on a cruelly high standard; a standard which an amateur orchestra, which, after all, is what the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is, cannot reasonably be expected to live...
Considering the concert as a whole, I feel that Mr. Baldwin was far too severe: certainly the Debussy at least was not "musically unacceptable"--and it was performed after a minimum of rehearsal time. The Brahms, also, was not without merit: the piece is fiendishly difficult, with great rhythmic complexities and breathtaking high divisi passages in the strings which, except for some raggedness, came out with surprisingly good intonation; and the sudden rests, traps for any amateur orchestra, were for once clearly defined--which does not seem to indicate "imprecision" in Mr. Poto. I thought that the Brahms...
Knowledge of more polished performances by professional orchestras should not cause Mr. Baldwin so cruelly to attack the really quite respectable performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra last Friday: they have done a good job in the past and deserve some thanks. Wayne Shirley...