Word: concertos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...barnyard audience served as accompaniment to a solo improvising clarinetist, Matt Katcher ’05, who weaved in and out of the busy audience, and whose improvisation at times sounded remarkably like Mozart’s clarinet concerto. When Katcher stopped playing and shouted “never!” the piece had two minutes remaining...
...double trombone concerto with wind ensemble accompaniment ensued, with the soloists walking along the map of the T. At every major junction, such as Park Street, the composer narrated a brief tourist-guide blurb regarding the history and interest of that point in the city, culminating in a glorious explosion of sound surrounding the arrival of the soloists at Harvard Square...
Jackiw noted he was glad that Dr. Yannatos and the HRO agreed to perform Saint-Saëns’ “Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor” at his request. “It’s not played very often,” said Jackiw, “but it’s one of my favorite pieces...
Jackiw and the orchestra were met with uproarious applause at the conclusion of the third and final movement of the concerto. The entire house rose to its feet with hoots and hollers and shouts of “Bravo! Bravo!” Despite many entreaties, Jackiw could not be coaxed into an encore...
...third and final performance of the evening, Brahms’ first symphony, was technically a success but doomed by the program to a feeling of anticlimax. After Jackiw’s rapturous violin concerto, little short of a miracle could create a worthy successor...