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...Butter establishes the big non-Berry beat, Berry closes his eyes and hangs his head. His fingers break idly into stray chords from Roll Over, Beethoven, and finally he half-heartedly picks up the lyrics...
...heart's beatin' rhythm and my soul keeps a-singin' the blues;Roll over, Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news...
Friday night the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra set out to please everybody. For those who think music stopped in 1880, there was Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C. For those who think it began in 1923, the orchestra played the Five Bagatelles for Orchestra by contemporary composer Gunther Schuller. Then, for those who haven't accepted the dogma that the nineteenth century doesn't exist, there was every not of Tschaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, the "Pathetique...
People usually come to hear the HRO parti pris, but Friday night the orchestra surprised even its most faithful adherents. The first movement of the Beethoven exhibited a string section that was competent and solidly in control despite purported despoliation by this year's Bach Society Orchestra. Under conductor James Yannatos, the orchestra played with just the right kind of classical clarity and transparence. These qualities are more difficult to master than the rhythmic complexities of contemporary music or the pyrotechnics of late nineteenth-century orchestral style. All the elements which are so important in Beethoven--dynamic contrast, elegance...
Musical Levitation. Shaw, 51, long regarded as America's top chorus master, conducted clean, well-balanced though somewhat earthbound readings of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Copland's recently revised Canticle of Freedom. The evening's climax-Beethoven's formidable Ninth ("Choral") Symphony-was a feat of musical levitation. The intelligence and spirit of the interpretation, along with the sheer force and clarity of Shaw's baton, lifted the performance above its own technical flaws-some faulty string playing, moments of rhythmic dislocation-to provide music that frequently soared with...