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...Apple Hill Chamber players perform Faure, Martinu, and Beethoven. Tickets: $3.50, Students $2.50. Friday...
...first two acts, using music by Tchaikovsky, pro vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction and Martinu's sweet and sour Fantaisies Symphoniques). A distraught Anna, apparently living in a mental ward, relives the past as she imagines or remembers it. As to whether Anna was an impostor, no one knows for sure, including, unfortunately, MacMillan...
Beethoven and Hindemith, horn sonatas, 5:30. March 4. Chamber Music, Duesenberry. Pace, Peyton, Petrassi. Boulez, Ives, Martinu. Bartok. 3, March...
...intensity. Klemperer is overly eulogzed as "the Olympian, interpreter of the classics." And too often it is said of Charles Munch, beloved as he is, that "he does well only in French music." Friday's contert clearly belied this cruel simplification. Choosing three of his favorite works--by Elgar, Martinu, and Saint-Saens, Munch displayed powers of drama and orchestral coloring over a wide variety of material. The Boston Symphony responded to his return like a faithful wife, recovering a zeal and devotion long thought destroyed...
...real triumph of the afternoon came with the Fantaisies Symphoniques, the Sixth Symphony, of the late Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. It is unsurprising that the performance appeared beyond reproach, for the symphony was composed for Munch himself, with his conducting talents explicitly in mind. Munch united all the conflicting episods (ranging from ominous ostinate passages to hymnlike chords) into a thoroughly convincing whole. This was a difficult achievement, for the work is diffuse in form and ambiguous in meaning. It is suggested that Martinu was here meditating about his imminent death...