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FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL (corner of Garden and Mason Sts.), Fiddle Show, French Canadian, Bluegrass, Irish, Western Swing. Old-Timey styles, 2-6 p.m., Dec. 17, $2.50. LEVERETT HOUSE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM. Lieder by Hugo Wolf, performed by Robert McKelvey, baritone, F. John Adams, piano...
...arts complex on the south bank of the Thames, participating in no fewer than seven programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick up his regular routine, recording, composing, appearing in TV specials, dashing off essays for Punch and conducting about 100 concerts a year with the L.S.O. and other orchestras in England and on world tour...
...orchestra seemed stylistically most comfortable in the Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The string playing was warmer in tone and well controlled (especially the violins in the second song), as were most of the various wind solos which punctuate the work. Contralto Jane Struss was disappointing: she brought out little of the wide dynamic gradation, richness of quality, and dramatic intensity required by these songs...
...Lieder Recital with works of Brahms. Schumann and Schubert, sponsored by Arts Across the River. Sandery Theatre. 8:30, May 19, $2.50, or $4 reserved...
...Lieder-singing tenors often find the transition to early music difficult, but Charles Bressler is an exception. In the second part of Acis he supplied both magnificent solo technique (best in his martial "Love sounds th'alarm" aria) and at other times a capacity for blending in with the chorus. Bressler's voice is impressively agile while his manner is wholly engaging. The same cannot be said for soprano Jean Hakes. Singing Galatea's role, too often she allowed superfluous dramatic gestures to interfere with the music. She does possess an exceptional grace of execution, proving again her mastery...