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Last Friday's concert initially seemed just another example of HRO's excellent reputation. The performance opened with a solid rendition of Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture, Opus 17, led by assistant conductor Daniel Altman. HRO's command of dynamics is spectacular, and the various crescendos and decrescendos were subtle and nuanced, yet vivid and exciting as the orchestra swelled and faded dramatically. The violins shimmered over the rapid-fire rataplan of the brass as the overture progressed. Dancing staccato strings quickly relinquished prominence to legato passages for a fuller ensemble, until finally the hall exploded with...
...transcended ordinary expectations with its performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Op. 35. While the appearance of conductor James Yannatos met with the hearty approbation of the audience, the advent of the 1997-98 concerto competition winner produced a reaction more akin to an electric shock. The phenomenon calling himself Joseph Lin '00 strode onto the stage, sweet-faced and supremely self-possessed, and immediately filled Sanders with his charismatic stage presence. Yannatos exchanged a few words with him, then plunged into the beginning of the concerto. Lin remained imperturbable as he hoisted his violin onto his shoulder during...
Ozawa directed with all of the vivacity that the audience expects. Though the conductor must lead the orchestra well, which he did because the music was beautiful, he also has the responsibility of entertaining the audience. His fabulous hair and coattails flailed as he brought in this group and excused this section and held his pose for a moment just for effect. By the end he had performed superbly for the people on both sides of him; the audience...
...midst of a standing ovation, which isn't given at the BSO, the conductor and the diva share a kiss. The audience, composed of older couples who probably think of going to such an event as this the way most people think about going to the movies and younger men looking to impress their dates, eased into the standing ovation the way people stand to do the wave at a sporting event. It was as if they weren't quite sure how to act around each other. In the end, they decided that they performance was worth the effort...
...kind of feeling that words could hardly frame. At Boston's Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf laid down his baton, raised it again for the funeral march from the Eroica. On a Washington street corner, a blind Negro woman plucked at the strings of her guitar, half-singing, half-weeping a dirge: "He promised never to leave me." And on Commerce Street in Dallas, in an incident little noted at the time but to assume later significance, Jack Ruby silently closed down his strip-tease joint, the Carousel...