Word: harbison
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...Bach--remind us that we are in a temple of culture, to be enlightened by the best music from the best minds in history. The literal presence of these great names only emphasized the question posed by last Sunday's concert: is that tradition still alive, and does John Harbison belong...
...Harbison, who lives in Cambridge, is one of the most accessible modern composers. He has all the proofs of success in today's shrunken musical world: a Pulitzer Prize, for his 1987 opera "The Flight into Egypt," a professorship and commissions from major orchestras. But success for a composer in 1995 is not what it was even 50 years ago; the audience for Harbison's music, like the audience at Paine Hall on Sunday, is mainly other musicians and musical scholars. The concert, which featured Harvard students performing three short chamber works, illustrated some of the reasons...
...main event of the evening was the premiere of a new saxophone sonata by Harbison, performed by Ian Carroll '97, with Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies. The sonata, titled "San Antonio," was the most attractive of the three works performed, incorporating Latin dance rhythms and some of the jazz effects usually associated with the saxophone; as Harbison's program notes indicate, the three-movement work recalls an actual dance party upon which the composer stumbled while in San Antonio...
...WITH REPORTING BY JULIE GRACE/CHICAGO, GEORGIA HARBISON/ NEW YORK, LISA TOWLE/RALEIGH AND RICHARD WOODBURY/DENVER
Department of Music. The New EnglandConservatory Contemporary Ensemble, led bydirector John Heiss, plays the music of Harbison,Ives and others. Paine Concert Hall, 2 p.m. Freefor students with I.D. Call 496-6013 for moreinformation...