Word: mozarts
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...Only Turn 250 Once. Sunday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. Memorial Church. Tickets at the Harvard Box Office. $10; $5 students and seniors. How else could Mozart celebrate his 250th birthday year but by having his music performed by practically every classical music group in the world? There have been entire concert seasons dedicated to him and tons of his lesser-known works have surfaced. Birthday cakes have even been frosted lovingly with his portrait. What’s more, he only hit the big day in January, which means—fortunately for audiences everywhere—that...
While one might expect the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) to stick to its namesake composer or to fall into the tendency to play only Mozart during this celebratory year, its varied song selection made for a refreshing concert this past Saturday in Paine Hall. One was, as always, left with admiration for the achievements of the entirely student-run chamber orchestra, currently led by Music Director Daniel W. Chetel ’06 and concertmaster Alex Y. Shiozaki...
...night began with Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “Sinfonietta No. 1,” a work that the composer dedicated to the memory of Mozart. Although one probably cannot have enough Mozart, classical music during this illustrious year—and in the wake of the Mozart Society Orchestra’s (MSO) own tribute to Amadeus—has begun to seem as repetitive as carols around Christmastime, and the Brazilian’s tribute was a nice variation...
BachSoc improved at the end of the night, ultimately inspired, no doubt, by the remarkable brilliance of Mozart. Rather than intimidate performers, the Austrian master seemed to inspire the orchestra, which delivered a passionate performance occasionally hindered, but never ruined, by a lack of technical expertise...
...violins trilled softly in the background, and the performance of a handful of brass players from the high balcony of the theatre in the march section, which effectively captured the attention of audience members below. The main attraction of the night was Levin’s rendition of the Mozart “Piano Concerto No. 24.” The performance by Levin, Harvard’s leading expert on Mozart, was an excellent follow-up for anyone who took Literature and Arts B-52: “Mozart” that he taught last semester. His technical...