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CURRIER HOUSE SCR. Cynthia Healy Ellis, soprano; Susan Gordon, piano; Marion Haffenreffer, violin. Chamber music of Bach, Beethoven, Molst, Walton, and Barber. Free. Saturday, November...
...Casals grew terribly pessimistic after violent events in Barcelona on May 1, 1890; he became obsessed with suicide. But, for the next half century, he placed this view of the world in the back of his mind in order to concentrate on the more perfect worlds of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. During this period he revolutionized cello technique. He discovered the magnificence of the six long-neglected Bach suites for unaccompanied cello and brought this music before the public. He became the foremost cellist in the world...
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Sarah Brink, harpsichordist, in recital. Works of L. Couperin, Frescobaldi, Boismortier, and Bach. Free. Friday, October 26, 8:30 p.m. KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Hanni Schmid-Wyss, pianist, in recital. Works of Beethoven, Rossini, Bartok, and Mendelssohn. Free. Friday, October...
...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...
...second movement was almost annoyingly reminiscent of West Side Story's "There's a Place for Us"--after all Beethoven was long before Bernstein, and hearing Bernstein should bring Beethoven to mind and not vice-versa...