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...following piece, Felix Mendelssohn’s verleigh’ uns frieden, opened beautifully, with bassoon and bass accompanying the chorus. This Lutheran prayer for peace was moving and skillfully handled by both chorus and orchestra. There were a large number of musicians on the stage for such a small performance venue, and both ensembles controlled their expression brilliantly, resulting in an emotive and comprehensible dialogue between the instruments and voices...
BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 9 Location: Sanders Theatre DATES: Dec. 2-3 PRESENTED BY: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra closed its first ever collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus last Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd in Sanders Theater...
According to conventional symphony form, a slow movement follows the opening, and a light, dance-like movement precedes the final movement. Beethoven switched these in the Ninth to increase the dramatic buildup before his grand conclusion. Beethoven’s intentions were well understood by the orchestra, as the chorus took its place on the stage before the third movement, although they only enter in the fourth, so they would not interrupt the flow...
...winds is rejected by the low strings until the winds finally present a variation of the familiar “Ode to Joy” theme, which is enthusiastically taken up by the low strings, then the violas and the violins, and finally the entire orchestra and even the chorus. The solo vocalists, especially baritone Sidney Outlaw, were superb...