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...problems still plaguing the band were in evidence from the very start--a flute playing out of tune and a shaky clarinet section. But conductor James Walker salvaged Shastakovich's Festive Overture (1954) with excellent intonation...
Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...shaky start with the Mozart. Each of three major allegro sections begins with a set of fugal entries which leave the first and second violons especially exposed. In each case the entrance were painfully ragged. On the other hand; the second theme-group dialogues between oboe and flute were exquisite examples of ensemble and musicianship...
...times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some of the most mellifluous, well-shaped line I have ever heard. To the flute, Mahler has given a number of improvisatory, melismatic solos that rank with Debussy's writing for the instrument; and principal Michael Tabak must be the original Chinese flute...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. James D. Yannatos will conduct a program of Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute, and Walter Piston, Clarinet Concerto. Tickets available at the door...