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...highlight of the night was definitely Elkies??s wonderfully sensitive performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra in C minor, “Choral Fantasy.” After staff moved the piano to nest within the orchestra, the audience awaited Elkies??s appearance with almost palpable anticipation...
...Choral Fantasy” started with a cadenza-like, improvisatory section for unaccompanied piano. Elkies??s dramatic opening begged for more dynamic contrast, but by no fault of his own. For logistical purposes, the top of the grand piano had been removed, which drastically reduced the projection of its sound into the audience. However, this shortcoming did not severely diminish the introduction’s effectiveness—especially since Elkies was very sensitive to the ends of his phrases, often tapering off in delicate pianissimos...
...orchestra and the piano passed the main melody of the work back and forth in a well-voiced dialogue throughout the piece. Demirjian’s direction deftly brought out the layered texture of the pizzicato from the strings, melodic lines from the woodwinds, and Elkies??s impressively controlled trills, especially after the entry of the chorus...
...However, the overall effect of the work was almost mythic. The waves of sound continued to build to the end of “Choral Fantasy” with the full grandeur of the choir’s pure harmonies, the strings’ furious tremolo, and Elkies??s intense scales and arpeggios. The evening as a whole was similarly fantastic...
...Elkies?? paper consisted of three parts. The first was the presentation of a recent proof of Euler’s formulas that Elkies said was not yet well-known in the mathematical community...