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Roger Kahn is a man of highly varied passions. He loves to read Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy. He loves hearing Heifetz play Sibelius' D-minor Violin Concerto. He grew up listening to Sir John Gielgud recite Shakespeare on brittle 78-r.p.m. records and in the '40s saw Paul Robeson's towering Othello. He has a passion for all these pleasures-and sports as well...
...Benefit Gala Concert--Jordan Hall, Boston--8 p.m.--program of Purcell, Mendelsshon, Bach (Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, featuring Lynn Chang '75), Beethoven, and Villa Lobos. Info...
Tanglewood. Ozawa conducts Rochberg Violin Concerto, Isaac Stern, violin, and Brahms Symphony...
...cantata itself is based on an actual incident--a friend is leaving Germany for his native Italy, and Bach wants to wish him well, despite the sadness in parting. The Sinfonia, in B minor, sets this tone, and somehow greatly resembles the first movement of the D minor violin concerto...
...performance of Leon Kirchner's 1960 Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 winds, and percussion which followed, also carried this sense of motion and drive. Kirchner, in comments on this work, has emphasized the extent to which he has retained roots in music like the Back, rather than concentrating only on the "nowness" of modern music. The Concerto reflects this concern, as Kirchner writes in the modern idiom, but with warmth and not numbing austerity. On Tuesday night, the brass and percussion were especially noteworthy; the former carrying out their role as an antiphonal block, the latter as understated punctuation. Lawrence...