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...Harvard University Choir and the Bach Society Orchestra, two of the pockets of high quality performance in Harvard, combined last night for a concert of sacred music in Memorial Church. The quality of the combination was something less than the sum of the quality of the Choir and the BSO, because the two compositions the orchestra played alone hardly matched the two works sung by the choir, Brahms' Fest- und Gedenksprueche, Op. 109 and Mozart's Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento...
Gregory Biss, who will conduct the BSO for its next two seasons, introduced himself in a solid, accurate performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 86 in D. Granted that the Haydn offers little latitude for a conductor's virtuosity, Biss's version was singularly unexciting. He made every important cue, handled all the details of podium performance with more polish than one expects of a novice students conductor; unfortunately, the sound lacked a matching professionalism. For example, the dynamics of the first and third movements ventured little beyond mezzo forte and forte; throughout, there was hardly any of the nuance...
Saturday, August 18: 10 a.m. Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Eugene Ormandy - Prokofiev: Classical Symphony - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Istomin...
Saturday, August 11: 10 a.m. Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal...
Saturday, August 4: 10.00 Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Conductor; William Steinberg: Beethoven: Symphony No.8; Bruckner: Symphony...