Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ugliness, deliberate, sustained ugliness is surely a sin, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Concert at the Loeb last weekend was just that. Every now and then--when the dancers stopped running straight across the stage, jerking like epileptics, teetering on the verge of toppling, then toppling (whether purposely or not)--the evening did provide some fleeting moments of pleasure. But there were...
...Concert was a pastiche of compositions from Harvard, Radcliffe, Wheaton, and Brandeis--eleven numbers by as many composers. A concert so structured could lose in coherence and theatricality what it had to offer in variety. This problem was avoided by presenting works so similar in conception, style, movements, music (non-music or no music) and even costumes and lighting, that they could well have been created by only one person. This left the rather depressing impression that all young choreographers around here are thinking and producing the same dreary stuff...
...concert of Mozart concertos and chamber music will be performed by an orchestra of eighteenth-century proportions directed by John Harbisou '59 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Sanders Theatre. Admission is free...
...HARVARD-RADCLIFFE Orchestra was in top form for its final concert last Saturday evening. If the group has been noticeably under the weather in past appearances this year, especially since the departure of permanent conductor James Yannatos, it is now on the way toward a total recovery. Appearing with a string section pared down to the absolute minimum, the orchestra seems to have reached a solid foundation on which to begin reconstruction. Next year, if full size can be reached without diluting present competence, the orchestra should be prepared to indulge all but the wildest programming whims...
...concert Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Levin and violinist Mary Harbison will perform the double concerto, and clarinetist Sherman Friedland will take part in the quintet. The program will include other works by Mozart as well...