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...keyboard. The orchestra supported him with appropriate and timely effects, and did not intrude on the solo. As he finished, the BPO members were smiling with baffled delight, and the Sanders audience rose immediately to give him a cheering ovation.After an intermission, the group finished with an orchestral staple, Dvorak??s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Zander gave a thorough overview of the piece, again paired with excerpts from the orchestra, and showed a contagious enthusiasm for the music. “I ask you to bring your whole self...
...grow. On Easter Sunday—a few days after arriving in Biloxi—we took a day trip to New Orleans. Encountering a skyline of majestic skyscrapers that could have belonged to any city, I found myself filled with immense love for this vast country. As Dvorak??s “New World” symphony played on my iPod, the city felt like a new world I was discovering for the first time. This is America: one body of many co-dependent parts—interstates flowing like arteries and one common heart beating forever...
...group premiered “Gilded Glass,” a piece composed especially for the group by Elizabeth C. Lim ’08, before playing two relatively obscure pieces: Igor Stravinsky’s “Concerto for String Orchestra in D” and Antonin Dvorak??s “Serenade for Strings.” It became apparent by the end of the evening that the group should have a larger draw. Now in their eleventh year, the unassuming Brattle Street Chamber Players perform without a conductor, resulting in a unified ensemble characterized...
...then came the main event. Antonin Dvorak??s “Cello Concerto in B minor,” featuring Koh’s solo performance, was undoubtedly the highlight of the evening. Truly a vessel for the music, Koh moved with the orchestra and with the conductor, his closed eyes suggesting deep emotion and intense concentration etched across his face. Koh moved his arms with fluidity and athletic agility, his fingers nimbly scaling up and down the fingerboard of his cello to produce a rich, deep, and confident sound that swirled upward to the top of Sanders...
...Koh’s performance made Dvorak??s “Concerto”—and Friday’s concert—a hard act to follow. Through Koh and the rest of the orchestra, the audience traveled along a wide spectrum of emotion ranging from ecstasy to grief. It was an incredible journey for both the performers and the listeners. —Crimson reviewer Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...