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...Adams House Music Society (David Hurwitz, violin & Jonathan Thackeray, piano), Adams House dining hall...
...winners of the Pierian Concerto Contest, David Hurwitz and Robert Freeman, both played with considerable technical skill. Hurwitz, in Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto, displayed accurate intonation and a fine singing tone. The richness of even his lower strings stood out clearly against the greater mass of the orchestra. Pianist Robert Freeman chose another chestnut, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This piece, with its viscous melody in the middle, is a musical hodge-podge. It serves mostly as a showpiece for pianists, and Freeman gave it a truly virtuoso performance. He showed a wily mastery of the keyboard...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's annual concerto contest last night in Paine Hall resulted in a tie decision. Of the dozen contestants, David Hurwitz '58 of Adams House and Robert Freeman '57 of Dunster House won with their playing, respectively, of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini...
...work, which has much of the scope of Beethoven's later chamber works without their unity and continuity. Its effects, such as a too close imitation in the adagio, do not show the later Beethoven's sense of pace. This trio was handsomely and forcefully played by violinist David Hurwitz, cellist Walter Wheeler, and pianist Landon Young. They provided fine musicianship in a concert otherwise interesting only for its instrumental novelty...
...studies, the Class of '30 moved to the front early in its career and gave evidence of finishing with one of the University's most outstanding scholastic records. It placed Despres, Doob, Hurwitz, Koetzle, Landy, McKeever, Schoen-Rene, Smethurst, Watkins, and Wood in Group I at mid-term of the senior year...