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Mehta announced the program, of which I caught"Beethoven" and "Verdi" and little else. Theentire audience was absolutely silent as the musicbegan...
...music so utterly depends on the perception of sound that it seems inconceivable for one to exist without the other. One can imagine a deaf composer if, as in the case of Beethoven, he spent decades absorbed in the world of pitch and melody before silence held sway. Music, after all, is first composed in the mind's ear, and it is no great feat for professionals to be able to "hear" a musical score simply by reading it. But a deaf performer? To hit all the right notes, to play in an ensemble or in front of an orchestra...
...honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
Cabot House Music Society. PianistElizabeth Skavish and assisting artist BonnieAnderson will perform works by Beethoven, Debussy,Scriabin and Mendelssohn. Cabot House...
Mendelssohn Stirng Quartet. Performsworks by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Brahms and DavidHorne, winner of the 1993 Blodgett ComposersCompetition. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. Free...