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...uncanny way this phrase from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde epitomizes my exact sentiments as I left Sanders Theatre Friday night after hearing the HRO's second concert of the season. It was one of those concerts at which one wished one could immerse oneself totally in the music and forgive all flaws in the performance...
...programs, Yannatos has persistently scheduled pieces of 20th century music--often recent compositions--as keystones of his concerts. On Friday he led the HRO in performances of Mozart's Overture to Die Zauberfloete, the new clarinet concerto by professor emeritus Walter Piston, and that song to end all songs, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. What more could one ask of an evening...
...insecurity occasionally reared its head during the Piston, it was certainly in full view throughout the Mahler. The orchestra's performance was rife with premature entrances, bad ensemble, sloppy (though assidious) passagework and poor intonation. On the whole, the woodwinds came off better than the strings, though everyone seemed to be working hard. Marilyn Malpass was a model concert-mistress, at all times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some...
...Harvard music professor once characterized "Der Abschied," the final movement of Das Lied von der Erde, as a Mahler's farewell to the 19th century. It is tempting to think of this performance as James Yannatos's "latztes Lebewohl" to Harvard and the HRO. Though his departure is only temporary, it is still a pity the performance did not live up to the occasion. Yannatos has earned the admiration of most for his adventuresome programming, his enthusiastic conducting, and his sincere interest in the musical development of students, concentrator and non-concentrator alike. His presence will be missed next semester...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. James D. Yannatos will conduct a program of Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute, and Walter Piston, Clarinet Concerto. Tickets available at the door...