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...program opened with Beethoven's Quartet in E flat. Originally composed for piano, bassoon, oboc, clarinet, and French horn, the work in its recast piano quartet form still shows signs of woodwind writing. Nevertheless, it is a sprightly, tuneful piece with more than a few melodic and harmonic surprises worthy of the later Beethoven. The performance was fresh, idiomatic and perfect in every way. Balsam's personality seemed to be the dominating one. The group followed his beat, not Gorodzky's, and the piano part was emphasized whenever possible...
...truth and good humor. The third movement, with its nonsensical chattering between violin and viola punctuated by the lugubrious comments of the cello, gently satirizes the typical Nineteenth Century but is at the same time good music in its own right. The versatile who had sounded in the Beethoven, changed their tone for Dohnanyi; clarify gave way to richness, and relaxed give and take took the place of precision...
...singing group appeared here--the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, organized to illustrate Davison's lectures on the history of choral music. The chorus combined with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time in that year to present Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under the direction of Karl Muck...
...have spent most of their spare time since trying to organize the random echoes and overtones into understandable patterns-and, if they turned up barnyard squawks and eerie moans along the way, maybe those could be used too. They know their "tapesichord" will never displace the orchestra ("After all, Beethoven's Ninth is still Beethoven's Ninth"), but they believe it will give composers a brand-new range of effects...
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