Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strasse of the 17th of June the streetlights strain to curve out from the edge of the surrounding Tiergarten forest to cover the width. Between avenues, the marble base of the Victory Column is polished and despite its war scars reflects the misty recession of lights toward the Brandenburg Gate. What look like splotches of mud on the old classical gate houses flanking the avenues reveal themselves on second glances as shell pits...
...MOLLY BRANDENBURG...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Brandenburg Party. Strings invited to a reading of Mozart: Flute Concerto, K. 313 (Kathy Flanders, soloist) and Symphonies Nos. 35 and 40. April...
This is a good week for open sight-readings. The Band will be doing the noisy little Outdoor Overture of Copland. For those left-out string players, the Dunster House Brandenburg Party is good chance to play. There have been times when huge wind and brass choirs have been complemented by tiny string sections. One occasion in particular remains in mind when a desperation call was put through to Bob Coyne to hustle down from Radcliffe with his cello so someone would be there to play the bass line...
...Second Brandenburg used to be done as something of a trumpet concerto. Mercifully, this custom has passed; but the instrument's construction--producing a high, searing tone--give the trumpet a dominant role in the piece. Playing the piccolo trumpet. Robert Hazen noticeably tired in the final allegro, missing some high notes altogether and parts from sixteenth-note sequences. In the first movement, though, he was in much better from with a beautifully quiet tone that blended well with flute, oboe, and strings. peter Weiss played oboe unevenly: he was not sensitive to the dynamics of the other players...