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Tension has been building ever since three members of the gang-Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist, Hans Jurgen Baecker, 36, a garage mechanic, and Horst Mahler, 39, a lawyer who rose to fame by defending student demonstrators-went on trial in September on charges of having helped Ringleader Andreas Baader escape from a previous imprisonment in 1970 (he was recaptured in 1972). As the trial began, 17 Baader-Meinhof prisoners across the country went on hunger strikes to protest their incarceration in solitary confinement. Their lawyers charged that they were held for months in "sensory-deprivation" cubicles lacking light...
...Mahler, who is serving time for bank robbery, was convicted of abetting Baa-der's escape and had two years added to his prison term. Baecker was acquitted but remained in prison, also on an earlier conviction for bank robbery...
Guest soloist Maureen Forrester gave a superbly dramatic performance of Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer," in an interpretation which emphasized the lyric, folk-song quality of Mahler's melodies. Her rich, sometimes deliberately harsh low register is a magnificent and constant surprise. The alternating sensuousness and despair which she brought to the fourth Song were suggestive of the lilting, tragic songs of Kurt Weil, which also have roots in German-Austrian folk melody. The orchestra--particularly its excellent wind section--gave her exceptionally sensitive support with clean, sharp attacks and supple phrasing. Forrester's spirited but somewhat less exciting...
...lined up one of the world's great voices for their opening concert--contralto Maureen Forrester will sing Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer and a Mozart aria. Also on the program in this year of Ives, is Three Places in New England. And you won't want to pass up an opportunity to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, Conductor; with Maureen Forrester, contralto. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Ives: Three Places in New England, Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Mozart: Non Piu di Flore. Nov. 8 at 8:30. Admission...