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At first glance, the program seemed interesting, contrasting English Renaissance music in the first half with motets by Bruckner and Brahms in the second. By the end of the concert, however, the contrast seemed to have little point. The six florid Elizabethan motets from "The Triumphs of Oriana" were all...
In the Romantic music of the second half, the Collegium was supplemented by the huge Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, adding requisite volume. Though the enunciation of the English texts in the Renaissance works had been mediocre, the German and Latin of the Brahms and Bruckner was unintelligible.
THE KIRKLAND HOUSE Music Society is importing ringers--making their concerts of chamber music the best 99-cent bargain in town. Friday's program of Brahms, Hindemith, and Chopin had all the excitement of fine chamber music played by professionals.
Brahms's Sonata Number One in G. for violin and piano (op. 78) was played by two Kirkland House alumni who have since gone on to musical careers, James Buswell '70, violinist, and Seth Carlin '69, pianist, played a superbly controlled rendition of the emotion-packed Sonata in G. Both...
KIRKLAND HOUSE. Sonatas by Brahms, Hindemith, Chopin. James Buswell, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Madeline Foley, cello; Seth Carlin, piano. Tickets: $.99. Friday, November 30, 8:30 p.m.