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HARVARD's musicians and concert-goers are raving about Yo-Yo Ma, guest cellist with the Bach Society Saturday night. He is, no doubt, the most phenomenal soloist who has played at Harvard this year, and Janos Starker was certainly no small event. Yo-Yo's performance of the Haydn D Major Cello Concerto surpassed anyone's imagination of the piece. The best way to summarize his performance would be to say that it was Yo-Yo, and that Yo-Yo can be compared to no one in the world...
...facility with the technical demands of the Concerto would have been impressive in itself. Haydn was unaccustomed to writing virtuoso solo parts since he was not a virtuoso performer himself. But this concerto, written for (and perhaps with the aid of) the principal cellist of Prince Esterhazy's private orchestra, abounds with the most difficult technical feats: monstrous intervals and arpeggios, fiendish scales, and intricate double-stop passages, all of which Yo-Yo seemed to play effortlessly...
Bach Society. The phenomenal cellist Yo-Yo Ma is soloist with the Bach Society Orchestra this Saturday. Promises to be another Bach Soc packed performance at Sanders. Get the tickets early...
Chang led the concertino of the Corelli "Christmas Concerto" with violinist Robert Coalson and cellist Nestor Cybriwsky. The concerto is not particularly difficulty, but Chang and Coalson played with an enthusiasm and confidence reflected in their music. Unfortunately some very sour notes wafted out from the back rows of the violin section, somewhat spoiling the concerto's beautiful second movement...
...CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...