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Music from Marlboro; a Haydn planotrio, a Mozart Divertimento, and Tovey's Horn Trio; The Longy School at 1 Follen...
...Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," especially during the unnerving exposure of its long section of solo variations for each instrument. Debussy's "Iberia" brought out the HRO's characteristically rich, warm sound and some beautiful wind solos, and its supporting part in Mozart's Second Horn Concerto was cleanly accented and clearly phrased...
Mozart's Second Horn Concerto is a thematically and harmonically uninteresting work, and soloist Charles Kavaloski--principal horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and HRO alumnus--did nothing to liven it up. His tone and pitch were flawless, but his interpretation was deadpan and uninspired. The third movement is written as a spirited march, but Kavaloski played it like an exercise and looked as though the monotony of it all were putting him to sleep. "Iberia" is too flashy and difficult a work to do justice to at 1 a.m. It was the only truly entertaining work on the program...
...long (the standard trumpet is 21 in.). At first glance, it looked like a trick cigar lighter. Actually, it is a modern trumpet specially designed for the Baroque repertory. It has four valves -the regular three for melody, plus one valve that when held down changes the horn's pitch from B-flat...
...spin-off from Gillespie, but it offered not so much as a toot. No sax, no horn, no clarinet. Instead there was a clean, nearly transparent sound made by piano, vibraharp, bass and drum...