Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, Saccente said he was particularly proud of having played the role of Figaro in last year's Dunster House Opera's production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. In the long term, Saccente said he hopes to become a stage actor...
...years old, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston has been named "one of the top three orchestras in the state" by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and it fully deserves its ranking. Directed by the dynamic Gisele Ben-Dor, this professional cooperative chamber orchestra gave an inspiring Mostly-Mozart concert at Sanders Theatre last Sunday. The concert also featured guest soloist Max Levinson '94, a Resident Tutor at Lowell House and winner of the 1997 Dublin Piano Competition. This was his only solo appearance this season in Boston...
Later came Levinson's brilliant performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 (K. 466). This is one of the few Mozart concerti in a minor key. Of it, Levinson says, "I chose it because, of all the Mozart concerti I have played, it is the most challenging for me...I can't understand it in any other way than as a piece for orchestra and piano." Nevertheless, from the moment he touched the piano keys after the orchestra's brooding introduction, the audience was captivated by the beauty and sensitivity of his style. The orchestra's tone initially seemed...
After the intermission, the audience had the privilege of hearing one of the rare performances of Mozart's first symphony, composed when he was only eight. The symphony form was still in a formative phase at this time, and included only strings and a few select wind instruments. Mozart composed this piece in his spare time while attending his sick father in London, and, so the story goes, said to his sister Nannerl, "Remind me to give the horn something worthwhile to do!" If that were not enough to stagger anyone, there are moments of soaring loveliness in this Symphony...
...next piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (the "Haffner"), formed a striking contrast. By the clever concert arrangement, one could easily discern the differences between the two pieces and thus fully appreciate the latter, with its beautiful complexities of form, broadened musical imagination, and different instrumental voices. The orchestra conveyed these developments superbly. The symphony was named after Mozart's childhood friend Sigmund Haffner, to celebrate his elevation to the nobility. Appropriately, the first movement is full of pomp and flair, with dramatic octave leaps and running scales. The Andante is warm and almost romantic in style, though filled with...