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This is not to say that classical and romantic works--the staples of any concert repertoire--are not the great creations that everyone automatically considers them. The familiar figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that...
...Carter culture to mix with some segments of the country, notably New York-Washington. The 33-page r buttal to Jordan's latest incident suggests that the sensitivity is deeper than many thought. So there is hope. Jordan, after all, is the man who once worked with Beethoven playing in the background, and who fired a fellow just when the cannons went off in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. A man who can do that has got some class even if he will not admit...
...lost 85 lbs., and in doing so disproves the theory that a singer who loses much weight loses vocal beauty. The voice is in lustrous condition. Pavarotti gave a virile E lucevan le stelle from Tosca, an aria that is often more wept than sung. He took on Beethoven's In questa tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole song. Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti...
...Beethoven Program--Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Kogan and Lynn Chang perform with Sud Gewandhaus Orchestra at Sanders Theater at 8:30 Planist Kevin McGinty plays Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Scriabin, North House...
Piano and cello recital--...and Greg Colburn perform Beethoven and Brahms. Adams Lower Common Room...