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WHRB plans instead to broadcast a tape of Sunday night's Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concert. WHRB Vice President James S. Twiss '98 said the station will air a tape-delayed broadcast of the hockey game after the already-scheduled HRO concert...
Claude A. Naar '01, a classical music fan who attended last weekend's HRO concert, said he disagrees with WHRB's decision...
...sensation of watching last year's Mission: Impossible. No matter how much one tried to pay attention to the plot's convolutions, one was continually plagued by the question, "What is going on?" while the sole consolation was the star quality of the actors. The performing members of HRO were the Tom Cruise of the evening, and quickly removed the sour taste left by the Dallapiccola with the sweetness of a Rach-maninoff rhapsody...
...variation, and the appearance of Paganini's familiar theme was a welcome divergence from the atonality of the first two pieces. In 24 variations for orchestra and piano, the musicians crisply passed the theme from one section to another with the vitality and enthusiasm that made the first HRO concert so appealing. The orchestra attacked each new alteration with unfailing skill, making the transition from treacherous pizzicato and spiccato sections into lingering waltz-like melodies seem deceptively easy...
...third movement waltz added a lighter note to the top-heavy symphony, and the interchange of pizzicato notes increased the diversity of texture yet again. By the final movement, the Andante Maestoso, one had seen fleeting smiles pass across the faces of more than a few HRO members, and the toll taken by the the grand volume sustained throughout the finale showed in the flailing of broken bowhairs in the orchestra...