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...play. As it stands, The Corn is Green does run long--a little over two and a half hours, and some scenes could have been pared down a little bit to hold the audience's attention better. However, the superb cast and set, as well as costumes, override this minor fault...
After the intermission, Cunningham got her solo moment with Marais' Suite No. 4 in A minor for Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo, prefacing her performance with a definition of what a viola da gamba is-a string instrument more closely related to the guitar than the violin and its ilk, despite its name and appearance--and a discussion of the "softer side" of baroque music, explaining that baroque music was played at a softer volume than music today is. She then proceeded to play the quietest piece in the program, with a rich and hazy sound which made...
...onto the stage, his brassy, clear sounds bringing the volume back up again after Marais' Suite. The Bach Sonata in E major was purely a Galway showcase, the other players fading in the background for once as he overwhelmed them with his flawless playing. The Telemann Quartet in D Minor, however, brought the whole group on stage for the finale, and all contributed to the success of the performance of that work. Huggett and Jeanne Galway, especially, shone in this work, Huggett's playing so clear and light that she almost sounded like a third flute. Feet were tapping...
...encores were an almost ghostlike reminder of the pleasures of the concert. First was a small technical piece for two flutes in E minor by a composer whose name seems to be Schulz, performed by the Galways. It was a fluttering piece that showed the Galways' ability to twitter adorably on their flutes at nearly the speed of sound. For the last encore--a repetition of one of the movements from the last work--Galway insisted that the audience close its eyes for the final farewell. As the musicians played the work almost inaudibly, the concert seemed to be fading...
CAPE CANAVERAL: John Glenn is back in space. After a couple of last-minute glitches ? a minor air pressure alarm in the cockpit and a couple of private aircraft in the vicinity ? space shuttle Discovery blasted off a mere 20 minutes behind schedule on an otherwise clear, cloudless launch day. "I feel like a kid at his first Christmas," President Clinton said earlier as he watched from the roof of the John F. Kennedy Space Center. He wasn?t alone. Millions of visitors had flocked to the Cape, hoping to catch a little bit of the Glenn magic. And Glenn...