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...looking for, the easy search form takes you to the right place fast. If you're just browsing, you can look for information by sifting through categories such as jazz greats, 20th century thinkers or world culture. The media gallery treats you to snippets of everything from a Beethoven concerto to the Bangladeshi national anthem, along with videos of a Kennedy speech on the Cuban missile crisis and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda reciting his verse. ($79.95; Microsoft...
After a first half that seemed to stretch on too long, it was perhaps wise to choose Shostakovich's brief, energetic First Synphony to round out the program. The piece's vocabulary was quite different than the Beethoven which had come before, with angular themes, surreptitious-sounding pizzicati, and highly percussive tutti throughout. This idiom seemed to bring out a better side of the orchestra, which took the difficult rhythms in stride, found the wit in some of Shostakovich's jazz-inflected themes, and produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece...
...fact, thanks to a distinctly odd choice of works for this first concert of the season, HRO presented more of a caricature of the Apollonian: lots of tuxedos, not much excitement. The program lacked a major, wellbeloved anchor work; the closest thing to a classical Top 40 hit was Beethoven's Leonore No. 3 Overture, which is popular but too short to build a concert around. It was followed by the distinctly sub-average Triple Concerto of Beethoven, and the interesting but comparatively obscure Symphony No. 1 of Shostakovich. In a word, this concert was not going to make...
Among the upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
...reading. Sophomores are fine, but they also do a lot of reading. You are busy with seminars, conference courses, pre-thesis activities and the like. The last thing you need is an hour to listen while students eagerly call out and give a soliloquy on Michelangelo or Beethoven's Ninth. You have lost all patience by now. This is for somebody else, those who love to hear themselves speak (and there are some--many), but certainly...