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...Glee Club or even the HRO, it was slated to be the highlight of the concert season. John C. Adams is the most professional and professionally-minded student conductor Harvard has seen in half a dozen years. In addition he has won respect as a solo clarinetist and chamber musician. Daniel Troob, the excellent continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished...
Much of this well-advertised talent was in evidence Saturday night. Adams is a musician who knows what he wants. His conducting alternates between the subtle and the demonstrative, with a youthful tendency to exaggerate contrasts. In the Haydn Symphony No. 99 he turned sforzandi into Beethovenian Hammerschlage, while in Milhaud's La Creation du Monde the battery of percussion often overwhelmed the rest of the ensemble in periodic fits of exuberance...
Hardin's time of 24:59:4 was his best ever on Van Cortland's five mile layout, but he thought he could have gone much faster. "I was holding back when I passed Jim (Baker)," the soft-spoken musician said afterwards as newsmen gathered 'round, "but it felt really good...
Tschaikovsky's Symphonie "Pathetique" is something else. This is one of those pieces that an image-conscious musician will only listen to when he is sure no one else is looking. But there it was, blasting away in amply filled Sanders Theatre, and there we all were, guiltily and depravedly enjoying...
Hardin's time of 27:22 was his best of the year by one second; he edged out Shorter by two seconds and Princeton's Andreini by seven. This was the New Jersey musician's first win of the season. After going undefeated all last year, Hardin was hit by a plethora of injuries early this Fall, and may be rebounding into shape in time for the next big one--Friday's Heptagonals in New York...