Word: concerto
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CELLIST JANOS STARKER plays with superlative technique: his fingers range the cello fingerboard unerringly while his bow arm sails from one string to another, never straying or accenting incorrectly. But the highlight of Starker's appearance with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Friday night, the Dvorak cello concerto in B minor, demands not only precision but also sensitivity, which the world-renowned cellist was either unwilling or unable to furnish...
Kenneth Hoffman ("Concerto Program at Kirkland," Oct. 17 Crimson) does Robert Portney a serious injustice in gratuitously assuming that Portney held a "cavalier attitude toward [the] audience." Instruments will fall out of tune, especially when it's very hot, and in my view Portney's decision to stop and tune in the cadenza (where a pause matters far less than in the body of the piece) showed not disdain for the audience, but consideration for its members' ears...
...message is simple: The Bach Society is good this year. Last weekend the orchestra, conducted by Robert Hart Baker, gave an excellent performance of the Bach Suite No. 3 in D, a credible performance of the Haydn "Clock" Symphony, and an exceptional performance of the Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto...
...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. Bach: Suite #3; Haydn: Symphony #101, and Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Hugh Wolff,scott). Tickets: $1. Saturday, October...