Word: brandenburgs
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Last Saturday, Robert Hart Baker conducted a solid program of Bach's fifth Brandenburg Concerto, Corelli's Concerto Grosso number 8 (opus 6), Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat (k.V. 191), and Haydn's Symphony number 103 in E flat. Many of the ragged edges and hesitant entrances of the previous Bach Society concert had disappeared, and the violins followed concertmaster Lynn Chang's example, sawing into their strings with a vigorous attack which was missing in the first concerts of the season. Chang, who is one of the Music 180 graduates, was joined in the Concertino (solo group...
...balky harpsichord nearly destroyed the Bach Fifth Brandenburg at the start of the evening. A sticking action, hampered by the intense heat of a packed JCR, combined with a number of broken plectra to render the instrument nearly useless. Hugh Wolff, the harpsichordist, somehow managed to play through the 70-bar cadenza at the end of the first movement, in the process inadvertently producing a number of truly bizarre harmonies. Wolff appeared remarkably calm and demonstrated a fine technique when not obscured by the instrument's problems. Given that the Bach was the first of two programs that same evening...
Gerry Moshell has put together a high-powered program of concertos at Kirkland House this Friday night. Two of the best violinists in the area are soloists, Robert Portney in the Tchaikovsky concerto and Ronan Lefkowitz (with Barbara Jacobson, vlute, and Hugh Wolff, harpsichord) in the Bach Fifth Brandenburg. Moshell is soloist in a DeFalla harpsichord concerto. No excuse for missing this: it's free and given twice the same evening, at 8:30 and midnight...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Concerto Program: Tchaikovsky (Violin); Bach (Brandenburg No. 5); and De Falla (Harpsichord). Free. Friday, October 12, 8:30 p.m. and Midnight...
...received diplomatic recognition from 89 countries. The U.S. is on the brink of establishing relations. A State Department delegation will arrive in East Berlin shortly to discuss, among other things, the location of a U.S. embassy. One possible site (on land already owned by the U.S.): directly behind the Brandenburg Gate, abutting the Berlin Wall...