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...voices for their opening concert--contralto Maureen Forrester will sing Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer and a Mozart aria. Also on the program in this year of Ives, is Three Places in New England. And you won't want to pass up an opportunity to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, Conductor; with Maureen Forrester, contralto. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Ives: Three Places in New England, Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Mozart: Non Piu di Flore. Nov. 8 at 8:30. Admission...
Norman Letvin, Lenora Stein, and others. Music for winds by Milhaud, Bach, Beethoven and Fine...
Ives' work remains easier to praise than to listen to. At its most difficult, it ranks with late Beethoven, Bartók and Schoenberg for complexity. Even "friendly" works, like the two string quartets and Three Places in New England, take a lot of loving to like. But then, Ives never made things easy for himself and was not about to make them easy for the listener. He thought of music and all art as a bridge between men and once posed a question: "Where is the bridge placed-at the end of the road, or only...
...Orchestra Hall is a winner, with truly superior sound. The term for the way in which a stage projects sound into an auditorium is "throw." Orchestra Hall has a throw that even Tom Seaver might envy. As Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's opening program of Bach, Ives, Stravinsky and Beethoven made clear, the new hall also has remarkably even dispersion of sound (with slight exceptions in some of the side balcony areas), admirable balance and clarity, a striding bass and an exciting musical presence unsurpassed perhaps by any concert hall in the world. Skrowaczewski's readings tended...