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...night's concert at Sanders Theatre was more an "event" than a chamber music concert. This atmosphere was only reinforced by the nature of the programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music concert, the flagrant insertion of Bartok's Sonata into a menu of otherwise standard (and somewhat related) fare, seemed justified only by the appeal of alliteration. Before she played...
After the physical and tonal woodenness of theBartok Sonata, the vibrancy of the horn soloheralding the beginning of the Brahms Horn Trio,like a good antacid, would have spelled relief.Brahms composed this work for the "natural horn"prevalent in an age just before his own. The"natural horn" appealed to him since one must muteit with one's hand in order to play certain notes,and he desired that the entire trio maintain acorrespondingly muted timber. However, even whenmuted, the passion of Brahms' compositions cannever be suppressed. The trio which performed inSanders, Robert Rauch on horn and Mihae Lee onpiano...
...problem with a committee instead of adepartment, said Horn, is that it will not havethe power to make its own administrative decisionsor to appoint its own professors...
...linguistics program at MIT, which is ajoint linguistics and philosophy department, isvery strong, says Horn, because, first of all, ithas excellent professors, and second it is able tomake its own administrative decisions...
...Linguists are in charge of making thedecisions of faculty and staffing," said Horn...