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Soloist Melnyk, winner of this year's HRO concerto competition, teamed with the orchestra in a fine performance of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F. Melnyk's confident playing brought a luster to the interesting and varied passages of this work. His lucid style contrasted unfortunately with the orchestra's occasionally less than clear playing, but the rendering was fine on the whole, particularly in its relentless last stages...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by James Yannatos, performs Mussorgsky: "Pictures at an Exhibition," Britten: "Suite on English Folk Tunes" and Gershwin Piano Concerto in F (with soloist John Melnyk, winner of the 1976-77 HRO Concerto Competition). Sanders Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $2, 1.50 for senior citizens or with students ID. For info...
...first performance of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra draws raves, with special praise going to concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, first cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Georg Solti. The one undergraduate in HRO, who asked to remain anonymous, said afterwards, "It was a great honor to play on a college orchestra of this quality...
...second half of the program, Shumsky returned to conduct the HRO in a less satisfying but still competent performance of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 in D. The musical strides HRO has taken since their first concert last month became particularly evident as the entire orchestral ensemble arrived on stage. Shumsky's rigorous approach paid off in good intonation and intelligent treatment of musical lines. Again, the choice of music fit the performing group, as the segmented polyphony merged in and out of broad themes, allowing each section maximum opportunity to 'sing' unabashedly in its turn...
...proved extremely demanding for the strings. The triumphant fourth-movement Allegro needed, quantitatively, more than the single doublebass present, and qualitatively, a fuller and richer brass sound, especially from the trombones. Nevertheless, the concert in its totality was impressive and gratifying. Under the right conditions, there's no reason HRO can't be a consistently fine orchestra, and the group sounds as if it is well on the right track right...