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...staged version of Mozart's Magic Flute at Lowell House will be the highlight of the weekend. It's an ambitious project for a non-professional group, but the cast is generally excellent and well prepared. It's also a rare chance to hear a performance in one of Harvard's acoustically finest halls, the Lowell House Dining Hall...
Perhaps he found the demands of church music inimical to his own expressive needs. The church has always wanted voice-oriented music with the primary function of expressing devotional texts. Mozart's style, however, is instrument oriented. His church music tended to glorify itself at the expense of religious sentiment. For Mozart, the voice and the word were always secondary to the internal demands of the music...
...contrast, F. John Adams's best performances at Harvard have been of the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance. He has always showed marvelous sensitivity to those flowing vocal lines and fluid rhythms. But he had some real problems in coping with the Mozart Mass. His right-hand-only style of conducting with a hammer-like delivery of each beat led to disconcerting accents on each quarter-note. Mozart's long phrases were broken up as the music chugged along...
...Inventive bit of programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string quartet with HRO concerto competition winner Lynn Chang as first violinist. Their sound was well blended, and if a lack of sensitivity to the light-hearted humor of the last two movements ended the piece on a dry note, the performance as a whole showed a unity and sincerity of interpretation...
Well-played Mozart always sounds so transparent, so clear and simple. But the failures of both technique and vision on Saturday showed again that he is the most deceptively difficult of the great composers...