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...beginning of the first movement, which always calls to mind both the Rhine music in Wagner and the opening of the Brahms 2nd, was here also reminiscent of the tense introduction to the finale of the "Symphony Fantastique." The offstage trumpets and cuckoo-like clarinet were truly awesome. The strings sounded as tight and together as they do on recordings from the legendary Szell era, but much more joyous when they got to the main theme. It comes from Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfaring Lad" (the lied seemed to be the organizing principle of the whole concert...
...Riley) are dedicated musicians who actually play real instruments, instead of relying on played-out samples and drum machine-generated rhythm loops. Saadiq sings and plays the bass, the guitar and keyboards, Wiggins adds guitar work and vocals. Riley mainly plays drums and keyboards and is featured on the clarinet. Backing them up are live musicians playing instruments ranging from horns to flutes to pianos and organs. One song on the new album even features an orchestra...
...Wispelwey emerged as one of Europe's first general specialists, performing on both modern and historical instruments. Purists delight in the integrity of hearing a Scarlatti sonata on harpsichord or a Telemann fantasy with an oboe d'amore, as opposed to the anachronistic performance on modern piano and clarinet. Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal color of Wispelwey's early eighteenth-century cello...
...evening started with a Pregame Pep Concert by Deborah Henson-Conant, a jazz harpist and Lawrence Professor of Chemistry William N. Lipscomb, who played the clarinet...
...inflicts pink and purple one-piece feety-pajamas on a twelve year old girl, bullies poor Dawn, even making her tear down the "Special People Clubhouse." Little sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) steals the spotlight, pirouetting around the font yard in a tutu, and big brother Mark (Matthew Faber) plays clarinet in a nerdy garage band-- The Quadratics--and plots his collegiate escape...