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Following the overture, in her Boston debut, the soprano Christine Brewer sang Beethoven's concert aria Ah! Perfido. Brewer navigated the recitative, an abandoned woman's diatribe against her lover, with confidence and ease. The first slow half of the subsequent aria showcased her delicate control and artistry in the upper register. The second half, speckled with piercing cries directed against the faithless lover, called for a quicker, more agitated approach, which Brewer delivered well. The aria closed on a satisfying note with the reprise of the first theme. Throughout the piece, the intimate quality of the period orchestra proved...
During the following intermission, which was almost as long as the 20-minute first half of the program, some audience members, obviously very impressed with Brewer's performance, wondered if the soloists for the Mass in C, the work that would comprise the second half of the program, would be out-done by Brewer. Fortunately, this did not turn out to be the case...
...second half of the program, mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen, tenor Richard Clemont and bass Nathan Berg joined Christine Brewer along with the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus. The work, Beethoven's Mass in C, was definitely the highlight of the evening. Written in 1807 on a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II, this was Beethoven's first setting of the Mass, and was a complete failure in the prince's eyes. Perhaps he did not appreciate Beethoven's extensive text painting (creating musical pictures of the text), and his application of personal feelings to the various parts of the mass...
...Beethoven managed to represent this feeling of joyful gratitude through a wide variety of tonal colors and a quicker tempo. It was in the solo sections of the Gloria that the audience first got to really hear the warm, haunting voice of mezzo-soprano Rasmussen, a good match for Brewer's soprano...
Does this mean that the left frontal and left temporal regions of the brain are responsible for memory formation? A similar study done by James Brewer of Stanford University showed that different areas of the brain are responsible for remembering (and possibly retrieving, although that was not studied) different types of events. In Brewer's experiment, subjects were shown pictures, not words, and greater activity was concentrated in the right frontal and right temporal regions of the brain...