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...Romanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. 11, No. 1,” Debussy’s “Première Rapsodie (1910),” Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue for Piano Four-Hand,” and Brahms?? “Viola Quintet in G major, Op. 111.” Sanders Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $46/37/26/17/8/5. (KAF)On Fire, Gregor Samsa, and Kayo Dot. Making a glorious return to the stage from time away, On Fire will open...
...first event on the program, Johannes Brahms?? “Tragic Overture,” is a story of unfulfilled expectations—a dark and nervous piece of music haunted by lyrical dreams of tenderness. Like Beethoven’s third symphony, the “Tragic Overture” opens with two solitary chords. Unlike Beethoven, however, whose opening to his third symphony is bold and heroic, Brahms?? second chord is built unsteadily on a note one step above the tonic and is missing the third entirely. This foreshadows the unmistakable loneliness and emotional...
Other highlights of the weekend included the presentation of the Harvard Arts Medal to poet Maxine Kumin ’46, a 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday night for the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and Friday night’s presentation of Johannes Brahms?? “Ein deutsches Requiem” by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
First playing on Monday for a small crowd at University Hall, the Ying Quartet will have another, longer performance at Paine Hall tonight at 8 p.m. The program includes Brahms??s “Piano Quintet in F minor” with soloist Melvin Chen, Beethoven’s “Quartet in F Major,” and “Ice Sonnets,” a LifeMusic Commissions piece by Pierre Jalbert...
...third and final performance of the evening, Brahms?? first symphony, was technically a success but doomed by the program to a feeling of anticlimax. After Jackiw’s rapturous violin concerto, little short of a miracle could create a worthy successor...