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Following this disappointing performance of an already unsettling composition, the internationally acclaimed pianist Bartosik took the stage to perform Beethoven??s “Piano Concerto No. 3.” The introduction performed by the orchestra suggested the second performance would be no better than the first. Although the strings section played in unison and followed the concertmaster well, the winds seemed to be in an entirely different world. Constantly out of sync, the two sections did not seem to share any musical connection...
...night, which I and many other of his students attended. His ambitious and eclectic program, which included Stravinsky’s tongue-in-cheek Duo Concertante for Violin and Piano, Mendelssohn’s angst-ridden Piano Trio in C-Minor, Enesco’s Sonata No. 2, and Beethoven??s fiery Sonata No. 7, never showed a hint of musical timidity. Buswell first chose the Enesco, a lesser-known piece, and later added the other three works, which he called “old friends...
...began about as subtly as Beethoven??s Fifth Symphony, with all the discretion of the under-age drinking at the Harvard-Yale tailgate. Even before the first of those great end-of-the-year festivals centred on the death and consumption of a turkey—namely, American Thanksgiving—shop displays all over Harvard Square, and doubtless across America, began to display the early symptoms of their great annual malaise: the infusion of décor with vibrant reds and greens. With Christmas roughly a month away, the holiday shopping season has already hit its nauseating...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Mozart Society Orchestra presents its twentieth anniversary concert with Beethoven??s Overture to Egmont, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. The organization features distinguished conductor and music director Akiko Fujimoto in her second year at the helm. Students $6. 8 p.m. Paine Hall, 3 Kirkland Street...
...When Beethoven??s Ode to Joy, the European anthem since 1972, began to play, everyone present stood up somewhat awkwardly. Patriotism is not nearly as common in Europe as in the United States, so the images of the ceremony in the beautiful room were particularly striking. It seemed as if Europe’s politicians, under Zeffirelli’s direction, were trying to give a founding narrative to a process that Europe’s citizens have often seen as bureaucratic and distant. Of course, Europe’s complicated past was ever present: A gigantic statue...