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...nation's college campuses, the Ailey company is perhaps the most thoroughly integrated ensemble in all the American performing arts-stylistically as well as racially. Its repertory blends or juxtaposes Afro-American quick steps with the elongated en pointe of classical ballet, Ornette Coleman with Benjamin Britten, urban rock with plaintive folk songs from the North Carolina hills. "What we do is celebrate people," says Ailey. "That's all we are about...
HOLMES HALL. Chamber music for oboe, strings, and piano. Works by Mozart, Bloch, and Britten...
Undaunted by the prospect of playing music so difficult to present successfully, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave a program principally of Britten, Berg, and Ravel. All three pieces employed a soprano soloist, a role Phyllis Curtin fulfilled with ability equal to any singer here in recent memory. All the mechanics of sound production were displayed with ease uncommon to the student efforts so familiar in Cambridge. Even Curtin's stage presence was a model of professionalism...
...Orchestra responded to the challenge of accompaniment by playing above its usual level. The solo bits--strings in the Britten and particularly flute in the Ravel--were handled with a confidence and musicality surpassing mere technical competence...
...conservative the British. They are astounding in their ability to take even the tortured vision of a post like Rimbaud--as Britten did in his Les Illuminations--and convert it to some planning mood pieces. When presenting a work not in English, the orchestral management ought to provide text translations. If only to avoid fooling the audience into thinking the intermission has arrived (as happened after the Parade movement...