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First, there's the old piano teacher who's so deaf he applauds one of the daughters' horrific renditions of Mozart. Music geek...
This week's resurrection symphony may move tote bags but will do little to convince the skeptical of Bernstein's place in history; that's for succeeding generations to sort out. Less an American Mozart than a Saint-Saens, Bernstein was a glib, gifted musician whose ultimate worth seems today to be less than the sum of his many talents. "My time will come," said his favorite, Mahler, and it did. It may also for Lenny. But not just...
...curiosities of Saturday's reading of the Mozart was a slightly uncoordinated set of slides that seemed to date the performance before its time. In his first playing of the main theme, Perlman slid the third pair of notes and was followed dutifully by Zukerman. However, in the recapitulation of the theme, Perlman also slid the second pair, and was not echoed by his partner...
...real story of the evening came minutes later, when Perlman and Zukerman quieted the crowd by resuming their places center stage. As the reduced (for the Mozart) Israel Philharmonic sat by silently, the soloists commenced a reading of an unbilled marvel of virtuosity and musicality, the Handel Passacaglia arranged for violin and viola by Halvorsen...
...outdoor setting had disadvantages as well. I was in fact surprised at how uncontrolled the environment seemed to be. In the first movement of the Mozart, a siren began to blare at a very inopportune time in the soloists' duet. In the second movement, the grinding of a large truck, headlights visible through the trees, disturbed the calm. In the last movement, a relatively low-flying plane blasted through the air overhead...