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There is, however, one statement you make with which I take issue-that one cannot play a wind instrument. I can give a spirited (and recognizable) rendition of Drink to Me Only on the tin whistle. My encore, Handel's Scipio, is not quite so virtuoso...
...July 28: 10 a.m. Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal. 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Charles Munch - Handel: Walter Music - Haieff: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Janis...
Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Schubert-whoever the composer, the music is rarely heard quite as written: De Koven has an unsettling habit of cutting slow passages on the ground that "the fast ones are far more interesting." He is also a confirmed believer that "you don't have to be an intellectual to appreciate music. Who wants music to be profound?" De Koven's prejudices, in fact, are frequently more entertaining than his programs. "I attend no concerts," says he. "I consider them an anachronism like opera. Concerts are primarily mutual exhibitionism on the part of both performer...
...every Friday afternoon he made all of us go to the Boston Symphony, where we had to sit without moving or wriggling on the hardest wooden seats in the world. One at a time, we each had to go with him to operas, plays, and all performances of the Handel and Haydn Society. But the symphony was toughest. God, how we suffered on those hard chairs...
...singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault. Handel's Care selve, for example, suffered from too many changes of vocal color within its long phrases, and the exaltation of Schubert's Auf dem Wasser zu singen was conveyed more in the singer's facial expression than in the somewhat imperfect articulation of the notes. Madame Schwarzkopf's historical curiosity...