Word: concert
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...might engage in a battle of the gods, each trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played with a keen awareness of each other's musical statements, matching and blending their expression...
...sensitive accompaniment, the Bach Society orchestra moved to the background, both physically and musically, to give room to the soloists. But the group opened its final concert inauspiciously, presenting the first piece they have played this year that was composed by their namesake. Bach, in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, abandoned his usual use of a group of a solo instruments against an orchestral background. Originally intended for chamber performance, the third concerto calls for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, each group acting as a unit. The string orchestra that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against...
...Handel concert; Charlotte Kaufman, harpsichord, Friedrich Von Huene, recorder and flute, Elizabeth Epstein, flute and voice, and Laura Jeppesen, gamba. Eliot Library...
...concludes its ambitious and successful season this Friday with a concert featuring Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Schoenberg's marvelous Five Pieces for Orchestra and El Deseo Sagrado, the piece which won the HRO's composition competition, will fill out the program...
Bitter Statements. Over the years she remained in the public eye; in the '50s she made several bitter statements about discrimination against her fellow blacks in the U.S. That did not prevent her from coming home periodically to perform in the U.S., notably for a four-concert Carnegie Hall series in 1973 in which she wore a spangled body-stocking and a towering headdress of flamingo-colored plumes. It seemed for a moment that the Folies-Bergere might rise again. "My whole life has been my art and the theater, and I really think the contact is necessary...