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Unlike the only extant recording of the Concerto (also conducted by Kirchner), this performance did not obliterate practically everything but the solo violin and cello. Joseph Silverstein, violin, and Madeline Foley, cello, and the other instrumentalists, members of the Boston Symphony, sounded clearly and, thanks to Kirchner's careful direction, at the right times...
...Kirchner really triumphed, however, in conducting Les Noces. In addition to a select chorus of Harvard and Radcliffe singers, he had an expert solo vocal quartet--Beverly Sills, Eunice Alberts, James Miller, and John--and an extraordinarily impressive team of pianists: Luise Vosgerchian, Laurence Berman, Ursula Oppens, and Geoffrey Hellman. Together, they solved the problems of Les Noces, which are primarily rhythmical...
...difficulty lies in maintaining the drive and forward push of the rhythms in the face of constantly shifting meters.. In overcoming that problem Kirchner and his company cooperated brilliantly...
...addition to conducting his own Concerto and Les Noces, Kirchner performed with Luise Vosgerchian two Schubert compositions as entr'actes. Performed completely satisfactorily, these two works for four hands at the piano did serve usefully as comic relief. More familiar and predictable they could not have been...
...last concert in Cambridge to match this one in quality of intent and execution was given last spring; the program of music by Pierre Boulez. Like that one, this was sponsored by the Department of Music, one suspects, gratefully, under the goad of Leon Kirchner. There is no telling what will happen to musicologists if they leave the door open to superior applied music--the kind one can actually hear. But on the basis of Monday's more than welcome concert, one can assure the Department there is a mob at the door waiting to listen. Concerts such as Monday...