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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert that includes Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject by Anton Webern. Honegger's Concerto da Camera for Flute and English Horn (with Ellen Friedman '63 and Barbara '63), Brahms' Symphony...
...Bach chamber music served to contrast them even more clearly, identify each as a commanding solo artist. Although critics agreed that Igor still has a long way to go before he can challenge his father's mastery, the younger man's forceful, exuberant interpretation of the Concerto for Violin in E neatly counterbalanced David's melodic, subtle Concerto in A Minor...
...gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
Performers still shy away from his difficult music (at least one famed violinist flatly refused to play the première of his Violin Concerto), and most audiences still listen to him with polite perplexity. But Sessions would have it no other way. "A composer," says he, "doesn't sit down at his desk and say, 'I'm going to communicate this morning...
...first time in its history, the Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra concerto contest produced three winners...