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...orchestra will perform Prokofieff's famous piece along with standard concert works by Weber, Debussy, and Beethoven, said HRO President K. Chris...
...Enfant Jesus, in which Feltsman temporarily relaxed his inhibitions to project the music's ferocious rhythms and clashing polytonal harmonies. Best of all were the encores. In Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, he caressed the delicate, almost impressionistic filigree, and he unleashed an impressively big sound on Beethoven's Six Variations in D Major, Opus 76, whose lumbering melody Beethoven used later for the "Turkish March" in The Ruins of Athens...
Adams, who a decade ago was writing minimalist essays in broken chords and chugging rhythms, has evolved a more flexible, conventional tonal language, fleshed out with references to past masters (Debussy, Beethoven, Richard Strauss) and even Glenn Miller, as the dramatic situation demands. There has always been a theatricality about Adams' music -- the 1981 Harmonium was a vivid choral setting of poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson -- and in Nixon its dramatic qualities have flowered. The figures are sharply characterized: Nixon (James Maddalena), for example, is a gruff baritone whose music is often stiff and halting, while Chairman...
...would have liked to hear, for variety, at least some Beethoven, or better yet, some impressionist music or contemporary works. Still, one looks forward to more student recitals sponsored by the Music Department...
Roll over, Beethoven; Chuck Berry, turning 61 but still supple and satanic, is reelin' and rockin' with a movie and an autobiography...