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...ready to rumble! Tonight, for one night and one night only, the two Teutonic titans of timbre go head-to-head in Sanders Theatre. At 8 p.m., The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Music fans will also enjoy "Luonnotar," composed by the furious Finnish frenzy known only as Sibelius. Catch the opening event pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m. with Professor of Music Dr. Karen Painter. Tickets are available from the Sanders Theatre Box Office...
...midst of the 1997-98 BankBoston Celebrity Series, the orchestra, with conductor Joseph Silverstein and piano soloist Derek Han, already possessed a well-packaged program of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann--one could not have asked for a more fitting embellishment than a bit of Beethoven...
...conductor to return a fourth time, as indicated by the donning of coats across the balcony and mezzanine. Silverstein did return a fourth time, though, and with the same vigor he exhibited almost two hours earlier at the concert's commencement, led his group into an encore performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture. The overture acted as the perfect capstone to an already well-rounded program, its melody passed from woodwinds to strings, undulating through major and minor keys while the timpani underscored the excitement in the audience. This time there were rounds of bravos from the listeners...
...Thelonius Monk, we had Beethoven, we may have some Kurt Weil coming up," Goldberg says...
...Games also unveiled a new kind of East-is-West spin to things. The 516-lb. wrestler who sanctified the earth, after all, was a Hawaiian (called in when the only wrestler stronger than he is contracted bronchitis), and the rousing chorus of Beethoven's Ninth (a perennial Japanese Christmas favorite) was conducted by Seiji Ozawa, just returned from Boston. Andrew Lloyd Webber was responsible for the ad-worthy chorus, When Children Rule the World (and the producer of the whole extravaganza was the man responsible for a Japanese West Side Story...