Word: flute
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...languid, hauntingly lovely set of melodies to which several of the characters sing their poetry--Yerma's dream-monologues, a shepherd song by Victor, a complex six-part song by the village washerwomen--as well as incidental music. Exquisitely performed by Baxindine on piano and Marianne McPherson '01 on flute (filling in for regular Lori Sonderegger), the music fills the space of Old Library and combines with the delicate shifting of the light and the dreamlike lyricism of the poetry to create an atmosphere of dreamlike and rare beauty...
...orchestra itself began its program with another piece by Mozart: the Overture to The Magic Flute. One of his last works, composed in the summer of 1791, The Magic Flute tells the tale of lovers in the struggle between good and evil in a magical world. The overture itself begins with a drawn-out progression of three chords, which add an overarching solemnness to the otherwise warm and lighthearted mood of the piece. Mozart develops his musical ideas in a straightforward way, referring only once to the music within the opera. Filling in for BSO Principal Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink...
...Mascis, bass player Mike Johnson and drummer George Berz benefit from a little musical diversity with trumpet and flute accompaniment, but on stage the three are alone with their amps (and, from their glazed expressions, one gathers that they're presumably alone somewhere inside their minds as well). On classics like "Repulsion" and "No Bones" the band needs only provide the right chords and mumble a few lyrics, and the crowd fills in the rest...
...demonstrate the orchestra's varied colors. Especially striking was the percussion ensemble of the second movement, consisting of triangle, tom-tom, snare drum, cymbal, wood block, gong and chimes. After an initial statement, the ensemble returned to a perfectly executed dynamic rise and fall. In the third movement, the flute performed the solo melody effectively with a sort of rubato, freely suspended over the rest of the orchestra...
Tipler isn't new to conducting at Harvard. A junior music concentrator, he was the music director of last year's puppet performance of The Magic Flute by the Onion Weavers and was one of the three conductors of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra last year. At Friday's performance, he appeared a little nervous, but took control of the orchestra as soon as he mounted the podium. His conducting was clear and expressive, though at time slightly tense and skittish--probably due simply to nerves. Every once in a while he appeared to forget he was in front...