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DIVERTIMENTI, K. 136, K. 137, K. 138; SERENATA NOTTURNA, K. 239 (Argo). One of the world's best new chamber orchestras is the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, which took its name from the old London church where it made its debut a decade ago. With Concertmaster Neville Marriner directing in 18th century style from the first desk, the 16-man ensemble achieves a dramatic precision that would do credit to Toscanini. The three Divertimenti for strings, written when Mozart was 16, are stunning miniatures in Italian rococo symphonic style. The Serenata Notturna, scored for two small...
...program, the orchestra will give: the Overture to "Le Magnifique" by Gretry; Symphony No. 1 in E-flat ("Drumroll") by Haydn; Chaconne in E-minor by Buxtehude, transcribed for orchestra by Malcolm W. Holmes, conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra; "Serenata Notturna" by Mczart; Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra by Jan La Rue '40; and Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music...
...will top off a successful season tonight in its annual concert at Paine Hall, conducted by Malcolm Holmes. Including eighteenth-century classics and products of Harvard College, the program opens with Gretry's Overture to "Le Magnifique," and Haydn's superb "Drum Roll" Symphony. The Mozart Serenata Notturna for string orchestra, string quartet, and tympani which follows, will have the expert collaboration of the Stradivarius String Quartet, and Buxtehude's organ Chaconne in E minor will have the collaboration of Malcolm Holmes, who has transcribed the work for orchestra. Closing the program are two works by Harvard musicians, Jan LaRue...
...came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's lunar "Serenata Notturna," but was in place again for Mr. Bloch's own sombre, splendid composition, "Concerto Grosso...
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