Word: kass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promising group of performers, including well-known local soloists, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Smith Glee Club, and F. John's own talented Harvard Glee Club. A Mozart chamber work will also be on that program--the sublimely beautiful clarinet quintet, played by a group which includes David Kass and HRO competition winner Lynn Chang. Good Mozart performances are rare, so this concert should be a rare pleasure...
Last Friday at Kirkland House, four fine musicians gave an intense and memorable performance of this quartet, revealing its masterful qualities through the vividness of their playing. The music makes extreme emotional and technical demands, but clarinetist David Kass, pianist Hugh Wolff, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Craig Hogan rose impressively to the challenge...
...long and tortuous "Abyss of the Birds" movement. Kass showed clearly that he is the best clarinetist around. He tossed off the violent and jagged melodic lines with ease. Breathtakingly soft attacks in the highest register were followed by harrowing crescendoes without the slightest wavering in pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best...
...Merie Noire and Quartet For The End Of Time by Olivier Messaien; Marilyn Chohaney, flute, Lynn Chang, violin, David Kass, clarinet, Craig Hogan, cello, and Hugh Wolff, piano; Kirkland JCR; 8:30; free...
...Kass, like Ramsey, is worried about euthanasia sloganeering that might mask "our prejudices against the old and 'useless' and, in some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...