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Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding...
...Museum closed out this year's concert season on April 30 with a performance by two of Boston's star musicians. Violinist James Buswell and pianist Max Levinson '93, whose personal interpretive styles differ enormously, offered a program of Bartok's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano...
...Beethoven, which probably should have begun the program, opened with an irresistible feeling of momentum. Unfortunately, this motion rarely abated for moments of musical expression. Levinson sometimes made natural gestures with time, but Buswell pushed incessantly onwards. This situation was most manifest in the last movement, which the duo plowed through without moderation...
...Sonata's Adagio espressivo certainly captured a more intimate feeling, but the playing was emotionally unremarkable. The high point of the Beethoven came in the Scherzo. where Buswell's devil-may-care boldness struck a wonderful contrast to Levinson's filigreed lines. Here, the interplay of the instruments finally reached the same heights it had achieved in the Bartok...
...Faculty member Sally Pinkas and Evan Hirsch, duo pianists, present Visions de L'Amen by Messiaen on Monday, May 1 at 8 p.m. Longy Chamber Orchestra perform at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2. Longy faculty member Jocelyn Lopatin, piano, presents a concert of Works by Bach, Beethoven and Liszt on Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m. All concerts are free...