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Elliott Carter’s recent orchestral music is a synthesis of synergetic sound and syntactical brilliance, a culmination of more than seven decades of original, cutting-edge ideas. When the Monadnock Festival Orchestra finished playing the American premiere of Carter’s Symphonia in Sanders Theatre last week, there was no question that one of the most important music events of recent times had just taken place. This is tough, gritty music that demands the most attentive of listeners, and the 50-plus minutes of Symphonia were at times overwhelming...
...pride myself in having combined Project HEALTH and Phillips Brooks House programs with my desire to see New England. I have spent afternoons in Roxbury and been to sites of local note from Mt. Monadnock to Battleship Cove. I have seen the Patriots Day reenactments in Lexington, the running of the Marathon, and been apple-picking in the fading days of fall. I know how walkably close State is to Copley, no matter how many stops and transfers getting there on the T would require...
When I was in high school, the headmaster would announce every year about this time that classes were canceled the next day, and that the whole school would climb Mount Monadnock. This is easier with a 400-person high school than it is with an 18,000 student university. (If Rudenstine were to cancel Friday's classes for a hike, how much of Monadnock would be left when we finished with...
...onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...
...Punk was big; should he dye his hair purple and wear Spandex? Or mess around with country rock? A couple of years before, he had bought a shaggy, overgrown 600-acre farm in the southern part of New Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years ran out in the early '70s, he retreated to the woods. He spent his time clearing saplings on old logging trails; good folk-song material here. He bought some beehives. He tapped his maple trees...