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...recital at NEC’s Jordan Hall last Sunday night, which I and many other of his students attended. His ambitious and eclectic program, which included Stravinsky’s tongue-in-cheek Duo Concertante for Violin and Piano, Mendelssohn’s angst-ridden Piano Trio in C-Minor, Enesco’s Sonata No. 2, and Beethoven’s fiery Sonata No. 7, never showed a hint of musical timidity. Buswell first chose the Enesco, a lesser-known piece, and later added the other three works, which he called “old friends...

Author: By Jennifer D. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Reflects on Professor's Life, Music | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

SUMMER SCHOOL CHORUS CONCERT. The 110-member Harvard Summer School Chorus presents choral masterworks accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists. Under the direction of Constance DeFotis, the chorus will perform Mozart’s Mass in C-Minor and Schubert’s Mass in B-Flat Major. Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m. Free; limit 2 tickets per person. Available through the Harvard Box Office. Sanders Theatre...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Happening :: Listings for the Week of August 1-August 7 | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

Bach: Partitas No. 1 in B-Flat and No. 2 in C-Minor. (Igor Kipnis harpsichordist, Angel.) As musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...badly, Symmetrical phrases and harmonies that sound simple to most modern cars can become lifeless in unskilled hands. Even for performers with talent and enthusiasm there are problems, at the Harvard and Smith Glee Clubs found out last Saturday in their Sanders performance of Mozart's Grand Mass in C-Minor...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Middling Mozart | 2/25/1975 | See Source »

Mozart was never very interested in writing music for the Church. He wrote only two great religious works, neither of which was inspired by religious devotion. He composed the Requiem in anticipation of his own death, and wrote the C-Minor Mass is response to a new he made during his wife's illness Both of these works are on finished...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Middling Mozart | 2/25/1975 | See Source »

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