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DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Piano Quartets of Copland and Brahms. Free. Stunday, October...
...people come to performances by the Harvard Concert Band? Thursday's concert-the band's sole concert this year-included works by Stravinsky and Copland and a world premiere, yet Sanders Theater seemed cavernous and bare because of the lack of the size of the crowd. Perhaps people expect only to hear Sousa marches and Harvard songs at a band concert. After all, that's what they hear at football games, where world premieres are rare indeed...
Though the Concert Band concerts usually stress the classic pieces for symphonic band, such as those by Hindemith and Schoenberg, this year's concert drew almost exclusively on recent works. In Aaron Copland's "Outdoor Overture," the earliest work performed, brass fanfare was emphasized to a point where all harmonic subtlety was lost, but in the surprisingly tonal ending of "Music for Prague 1968," the band showed strong ability to play in chorale fashion...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard Concert Band. Works of Stravinsky, Copland, and Husa. Tickets: $1.25-$2.25 ($.50-$1.50 today at 9 Prescott...
This is a good week for open sight-readings. The Band will be doing the noisy little Outdoor Overture of Copland. For those left-out string players, the Dunster House Brandenburg Party is good chance to play. There have been times when huge wind and brass choirs have been complemented by tiny string sections. One occasion in particular remains in mind when a desperation call was put through to Bob Coyne to hustle down from Radcliffe with his cello so someone would be there to play the bass line...