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...performs Bartok, Brahms and Beethoven...
...already over-subscribed audience, it was clear that Saturday night's concert at Sanders Theatre was more an "event" than a chamber music concert. This atmosphere was only reinforced by the nature of the programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music concert, the flagrant insertion of Bartok's Sonata into a menu of otherwise standard (and somewhat related) fare, seemed justified only...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Perform Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. Call 2661492 for more information...
Boston Symphony Orhcestra. Open rehearsal on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m. The group will perform Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4. $11. Call 266-1200 for more information or tickets...
...finale, nevertheless, did not bring a full house to its feet. Evidently not moved to continue with Bartok on this journey, some of the audience quickly dashed out of the open-air theater after the third movement. At the end of the fourth movement, still more made their exit. The great majority, however, redeemed themselves by coaxing a rerun of the fifth movement as an encore with their unending applause. Clearly, much of the audience realized just how special the evening...