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...regret my inability to remain for the French portion of the program, the A-major sonata of Faure and the G-minor sonata of Debussy...
Temporarily belying its name, the group never-theless chose a program of three masterpieces, all of which were fairly well known but by no means hackneyed. For the G-minor Concerto grosso from Corelli's Opus 6, Senturia used a well-balanced ensemble of seventeen string players plus harpsichord. The group played with guts and gusto, though never forcing the tone. The precision was admirable and the intonation astonishingly accurate. But why, Mr. Senturia, did you decide to omit the final flowing pastorale movement...
Schuman's G-Minor Sonata gave her the opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura passages rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic...
Featuring Haydn's "Sunrise Quartet," the Budapest Group will play the "Quartet in C-minor" by Brahms, and Debussy's "Quartet in G-minor." Tickets are available at the Paine Music Building and the Coop...
...lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with a weak background on the strings. Several abrupt pauses in the final movement punctuated the variations on the G-minor theme. Noel Coward's description of Dukelsky's operetta "Yvonne" as "Yvonne the Terrible" might well be extended to include this concerto...