Word: berlioz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST concert in the 1976-1977 season of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra almost requires two different reviews. The HRO, conducted by James Yannatos, put together a program of Berlioz, Shostakovich, and Brahms on Saturday night with greater fluency and strength than they have exhibited in several years. However, what really packed Sanders Theatre to overflowing proportions was the trio of pianist Richard Kogan, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who performed on what must be described as a musical level comparable to the world's best...
...undeniably improved a lot; compared to their incredibly bad 1975 performance of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, the French composer was treated with kid gloves in the concert's opening work, his Roman Carnival Overture. Terry Maskin, who was outstanding in the 1976 Harvard Summer School Orchestra, showed similar mastery in the tricky English horn solo, and the trombones cut through the string filigree passages with round sonority. Even the upper string intonation was not excessively distressing, and the forte passages seemed to herald a new, aggressive, full-bodied ensemble sound...
That was Choral Director Margaret Hillis, 54, warming up the Chicago Symphony Chorus before putting the final rehearsal polish on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The Ninth is one of her specialties, but at this summer's Ravinia Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other...
...Pelleas and Melisande, which she was still singing at the age of 60. Her clear, controlled voice was not considered robust enough for the Metropolitan Opera, but she sang in smaller houses in the U.S., and her recordings of turn-of-the-century French songs by Debussy, Berlioz, Ravel and Faure are still rare collectors' items...
Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Five Pieces for Orchestra by Schoenberg, and El Deseo Sagrado by William Banchz; Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor; Sanders...