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Russell Stanger will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in its annual spring concert this Sunday night. Works by Beethoven, Diamond, Schumann, and Handel highlight the program, to be given in Sanders Theatre...
What the Met audience heard was Stravinsky gone autumnal. The music began with a brass fanfare in antique vein, worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...months ago G. Walker Woodworth conducted a performance of Handel's Messiab that was intended to sound as it would in Handel's own day. The results were rather tepid. But his latest venture in archaism a quite mother story...
...stresses the vague outlines of the phrases. Instead of using an acoustically perfect hall, he makes the recordings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, whose stone walls most nearly duplicate the resonance of Renaisance churches. But these are not more pedantic touches. While there is very little in a Handel oratorio that requires an eighteenth century type performance, the ethereal, evasive quality of earlier religious music is completely lost if subjected to modernization...
David Beyer, a comparative newcomer in Harvard music circles, gave a piano recital Sunday afternoon that was, in nearly every respect, competent and satisfying. His touch was sufficiently heavy and sold for the more somber passages of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Handel, but he could also produce the light, fragile tones so necessary for his group of Scarlatti sonatas...