Word: concertos
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...elegant touch to the evening was a revival of an old Handelian custom, the playing of a keyboard concerto during intermission. It was no accident that the canny old Hanoverian preferred the great volume of the organ to the harpsichord's thin tone at those intermissions. Fortunately, the Sanders audience quieted down in very un-eighteenth century fashion to hear a distinctly unemotional performance by Harriet Wingreen at the harpsichord...
Orchestral playing has a big part in the constant musical activity of Cambridge. Largest of the student organizations is the eighty-five piece Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Even the HRO is changing: in a burst of self-assertion, the orchestra has done away with the concerto contest. In its place is a concerto open-rehearsal, leaving more time for non-accompaniment orchestral playing. With Hindemith and Mahler on the opening concert October 29. Professor James Yannatos is presenting a different style from last year's HRO fare. The orchestra plans to work with the Loeb Drama Center in the spring...
...Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major...
...note A has varied from a low of 370 cycles to a high of about 567, a difference of almost a fifth, or the distance from F to C on a piano. Mozart's tuning fork shows he tuned his piano to 422, which means that the Concerto No. 21 in C (K. 467) is really a concerto in C sharp (or possibly D flat). As for Bach's B Minor Mass, it may have been written in B minor, but it is anybody's guess as to how many cycles per second were vibrating in Bach...
...always enjoy this year's new visual delights within the 75-ft. proscenium. At stage rear and stage right are two modular kinetic sculptures by Czechoslovakia's Milan Dobes, 41, that provide a light-show backdrop of spinning whites, reds and blues for Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that rim the rear of the stage. Some...