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That an amateur orchestra should tackle Mahler would seem to swell ambition into hybris evoke awe but wreak disaster. And for it to invite so great an artist as Maureen Forrester would seem to make conceivable only nemesis or utter triumph. But the gods were sleepy Friday night; the thunderbolt never came. Neither catastrophe nor undreamed success came to the HRO: feeling flickered in the music now and again, sometimes brilliantly, but never consistently...
...group deserves praise just for attempting such a giant as Mahler, not to mention negotiating his complexities with competence. For Mahler makes incredible technical demands: every instrument must be a soloist; the conductor must dovetail many scattered parts; and a solo voice must blend evenly with the ever swelling and falling background. The simplicity and brevity of these five last Rueckert songs make the job no less difficult. Their exposed, masterful orchestration fairly invites misfortune...
HARVARD--RADCLIFFE CHESTRA, conducted by Senturia '58, will present a Concert is Sanders Theatre at P.M. MAUREEN FORREST (who surely deserves caps) sing Mahler's Five Last Songs; Suzanne Burke will Ravel's Piano Concerto In G; the orchestra will perform Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale, Kennan's Night Soliloquy, first-desk-man Alex Ogle as fiautist. Tickets: $1.00, $1.50, $2.50 at the Coop...
...heaving harmonies, its breast-beating emotionalism, its air of Teutonic mysticism, Gurrelieder has no style of its own, is almost a parody of the musical philosophy that Richard Wagner imposed upon whole generations and that survived in the more grandiose visions of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Nevertheless, the composition is well worth an occasional hearing, if only because it preserves in a curiously suspended state all of the conventions of romanticism. At the end, the chorus launches into a hymn to the returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Romantic music from Beethoven to Mahler...