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Also: Peter A. Jaszi; Frank M. Kahr; Joseph A. Kanon; Anil Khosla; Walter Kiechel, III; Robert G. Kopelson; Thomas E. Kruskal; Robert J. LaRocca; Robert D. Levin; David O. Loud; Harold S. Luft; Randolph H. Lundberg; Harry K. Macwilliams; Neil S. Mayer...
...LEVIN has similar success with the Quintet Movement for Clarinet and Strings in B flat, K. 516c, where Mozart had left him even more to go on. Its presentation was unfortunately marred by poor intonation and general timidity on the part of the performers, principally the upper strings...
...case of any concert, there are always nits to pick. Mrs. Harbison and even Levin himself exhibited a tendency to rush and blur the details in more rapid passages. In addition, they both had the annoying habit of building to a climax but somehow giving up or losing concentration before the crucial moment. The result was a large number of fractured phrases and a general sense of frustration. Mrs. Harbison's intonation, like that of the quintet, was frequently poor...
Complaint, however, is bootless and beside the point. To say that the concert was enjoyable would be an understatement--it was stupendous. After all, with Levin's gifts as a pianist and composer and with Mozart as collaborator, how could anyone miss...
Whatever his ultimate commencement status, Saturday night marked the peak of Levin's undergraduate career: the fruition of a long love affair with Mozart's music accorded a spontaneous standing ovation by the audience. And that is something very few soloists beside the Archbishop of Canterbury can count as part of their memories of Cambridge. One only hopes that circumstances do not abort Levin's promise even earlier than that they did that of Mozart...