Word: cadenzaed
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...first concerts of the season. Chang, who is one of the Music 180 graduates, was joined in the Concertino (solo group) of the fifth Brandenburg by a capable Halley Sheffler on the flute and David Schulenberg at the Harpsichord. Schulenberg's rendition of the show-stopping harpsichord cadenza was textured like the score of a Broadway musical, and it evoked a ripple of whispered enthusiasm from the audience...
...breath control was excellent, and his technique polished--unfortunately the orchestra did not always match his standard, though the blend between them was good. The cadenza, exciting and wellplayed, was marred by a lack of communication between the soloist and the orchestra, which came in either too late or too soon, creating about five seconds of confusion before soloist-conductor-orchestra communication was reestablished...
...Program at Kirkland," Oct. 17 Crimson) does Robert Portney a serious injustice in gratuitously assuming that Portney held a "cavalier attitude toward [the] audience." Instruments will fall out of tune, especially when it's very hot, and in my view Portney's decision to stop and tune in the cadenza (where a pause matters far less than in the body of the piece) showed not disdain for the audience, but consideration for its members' ears...
...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, the wisest...
...playing solo. His technique is impressive and certainly of professional caliber. His very mastery might cover up for the cavalier attitude he held toward an audience he apparently felt was not up to New York concert standards. Coming to a dead stop in the middle of the first movement cadenza, Portney explained that it was hot (more than obvious to everyone in the room) and that he wished to tune the violin. When finished, he continued the cadenza from his stopping point. As one amused orchestral member put it later, it was the first-ever four-movement Tchaikovsky violin concerto...