Word: concert
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Take your pick--choral, orchestral, recital or ensemble concerts this weekend? Keep these in mind: the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum concert in its first performance of the year; the Bach Society concert featuring mezzo-soprano Mary Frances Lubahn, the lead in last spring's Ariadne, and Hugh Wolff playing Beethoven's 3rd; and Yo-Yo Ma's cello recitals at Kirkland and Adams Houses...
...GRAND SCALE on which the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra traditionally operates was even grander than usual last Friday night: its first concert of the year boasted the most famous of the Beethoven symphonies, one of the best-known contraltos around and one of the most popular works of Charles Ives in the year of his centennial. The orchestra handled this overambitious program admirably, and the strain didn't show until the end of the evening...
...were suggestive of the lilting, tragic songs of Kurt Weil, which also have roots in German-Austrian folk melody. The orchestra--particularly its excellent wind section--gave her exceptionally sensitive support with clean, sharp attacks and supple phrasing. Forrester's spirited but somewhat less exciting performance of Mozart's concert aria "Non Piu di Fiore" was complemented by a beautifully fluid clarinet solo by one of the aces of HRO's wind section, David Cass...
...Sorcerer's Apprentice" of Walt Disney fame--which it mistook for crowd pleasers. The new management has dispensed with such condescension and every work which has been scheduled so far is worth hearing. Like last year, the HRO is performing well. The difficulties which arose in the last concert, presumably from musical overcommitment, should be rectified in the upcoming programs, which seem to be of a more manageable scope...
...what you were," reflected Diva Maria Callas last week. Though critics have been telling the volatile prima donna something like that for years, the Callas star quality still blazes in Japan where she and Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano have drawn sellout audiences and 40-minute curtain calls during their concert tour. Pausing in her $330-a-day Tokyo hotel suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted to dominate my voice," she explained...