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With symphony orchestras in their vacation retreats, summertime is musically empty in many cities. Some organizations try to fill the void with light cocktail music in the form of Promenades and Pops concerts, but the Harvard Summer School Chamber Players have gone the more uncompromising route with the inventive programming and uniformly high quality performances of their Monday night series...
...Harvard Summer Chamber Series opened its third season Monday night and was lauded in the Boston Globe for the "exalting" performances heard that evening. As in previous years, the group is composed of a nucleus of about live professionals well known in the Boston area surrounded by young artists from Harvard, Curtis, New England Conservatory and U.S.C...
Guest violinist Donald Weilerstein of the Cleveland String Quartet is back making a guest appearance with the group again this summer, and will perform in Schumann's rarely heard piano quartet. Also light works of Weber Leon Kirsohner, music professor at Harvard and director of the Chamber players...
...only woman in the chamber, Mrs. Crimmins (Laura Esterman), is ardently sponsoring a bill to have contraceptives openly displayed and clearly priced. The men regard this proposal as scandalous, although their own pet projects are as bad or worse. One member fulminates that if God had wanted a permissive society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with...
Schubert: Trios, Op. 99 in B-Flat and 100 in E-Flat (Henryk Szeryng, violin; Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Rubinstein, piano; RCA; 2 LPs; $16.98). Corraling a collection of virtuosos to record chamber music is not always a good idea. Having spent years alone in the spotlight, too many of them lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor...