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The Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performed Johannes Brahms' "German Requiem" yesterday evening before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre.
Last night's concert will be repeated on April 20--the centennial of Brahms' death--in the Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Now, as then, movie music is firmly in the romantic tradition. In accepting the 1954 Academy Award for his score for The High and the Mighty, Dimitri Tiomkin thanked "all those who helped me win this award--Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky." What sets the new composers apart...
The finale returned the BSO to its buoyant promenade-like mode. Ax supplied plenty of exuberance, some perhaps at the cost of the movement's customary nonchalance. The sections resembling the finale of Brahms' Serenade No. 1 in D Major conveyed a perfect innocence, lifting the emotional burden of the...
The immediacy of Ax's playing extended into the stirring second movement, an Andante in contrast to traditional symphonic and concerto structures. Here Previn could have added some bite to the strings' releases in keeping with Ax's sharp interpretation. Hopeless romantics might have demanded more time in the springlike...