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Both of the undergraduate orchestras have concerts this weekend. The HRO will feature violinist Lynn Chang in the demanding Sibellus Concerto. Brahms Fourth is also on the program for a full dose of late Romanticism...
...French impressionism is more to your taste, the Bach Society is presenting an all-Ravel concert in honor of his one hundredth birthday. Neal Stulberg will be the Soloist in the infrequently heard Plane Concerto in G, a work which shows where Ravel's student Gershwin Picked up a few of his tricks. Friday...
...programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string quartet with HRO concerto competition winner Lynn Chang as first violinist. Their sound was well blended, and if a lack of sensitivity to the light-hearted humor of the last two movements ended the piece on a dry note, the performance as a whole showed a unity and sincerity of interpretation...
Lynn Chang '75 of Kirkland House and Newton, Mass. won the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra concerto contest last night. He will play Hean Sibelius's violin concerto in minor with the orchestra on March...
Carter is stringent in his music. But on the inequities of the musical life he is capable of arias and cadenzas. "Do you know how much I received in royalties the first year from the LP of Concerto for Orchestra? I'll tell you how much-$50. I get paid $3,000 to write a piece of music. My publisher has to spend $10,000 to get the thing ready for publication. When it comes out, I find that it has hundreds of errors in it. I send him an errata...