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Still, the program offered something educational even to the well-rounded listener. Metamorphosen played Grieg's Holberg Suite, Haydn's C. Major Violin Concerto with ChoLiang Lin, Ellen Zwilich's Prologue and Variations and Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante...
...outset of the Holberg Suite, its Praludium, quickly gave the measure of the orchestra's expertise. While each section exhibited perfect tuning and coordination, the melodic lines that passed between sections sometimes made awkward transitions. Metamorphosen also showed a tremendous dynamic range, impressive for a group of its size. All but the cellists played standing as Yoo, seeming to relish every moment, alternated between playing and conducting...
...contrast, Monreal's second contribution, "Classical Symphony" to Prokofiev, shows off the company's technical powers and little besides. Ron Cunningham's "Holberg Suite," Frank Ohman's "Serenata," and Helen Heineman's "Sinfonia" do the same. Traditionally choreographed in alternating sections for soloists and the corps de ballet, the works don't give themselves the chance to develop a broader vision...
...Ludvig's Holberg's The Healing Spring is under the tutelage of Mr. Hancock again. He has laid unholy hands on it, which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with...
...Eliot Drama Group Will open its spring season Thursday, Feb. 26 with three traditional farces on an arena stage. Cervante's The Judge of the Divorce Court, Holberg's The Healing Spring, and an anonymous French play, Master Pierre Patelin, make up the program...