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CLASSICAL: Virginia Pleasants, fortepiano; music of Bach and Beethoven; B.U. Concert Hall; Monday...
...were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony Hall joined...
...this glittering gathering of musical talent last week was the 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The gala concert, televised in Europe (and to be broadcast in the U.S. by PBS on Nov. 4), was followed four days later, on the actual centennial day, with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on the Boston Common, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, 46, before 40,000 listeners from Brockton to Beacon Hill...
...B.S.O. is weaker in earlier music, tending to be sluggish and bottom heavy when it should be more refined and elegant. In recent weeks, performances of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Mozart's Symphony No. 28 have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca...
...first Peabody-Mason concert (last Sunday afternoon) presented the Emerson string quartet--an award-winning group that in five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...