Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. Performs Krasa's Chamber Symphony, Schumann's Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, "Polish" on Thursday, April 20 at 10:30 a.m. for an open rehearsal; Thursday, April 20 at 3 p.m.; Firday, April 21 at 1:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday...
...soundtrack throughout the film is comically melodramatic. Extravagant orchestrations played at ridiculous volumes signal every scene shift seconds before it actually happens. Inevitably, when the orchestra begins to from a joyful, blaring, Christmas song to a slow, drippy, sentimental ballad, it's time for someone to get really mushy...
...three characters share a preoccupation with light, electric and otherwise. Ward wields a gadget with blatant Freudian implications. It is a light bulb attached to a long rod and disk which he uses to inspect people and swings like an orchestra conductor. This rod is one of several futuristic props which look annoying awkward in the play's early 20th century setting. But the more Ward dangles and sways it, the more interesting it becomes. As the trail of the light bulb moves back and forth like a pendulum, it induces a trance which is bolstered by the constant whir...
...Music is a kind of self-reflection," says the staunchly nationalistic composer. "I don't try to write tragically, but those are my feelings." Kancheli's output includes seven symphonies, an opera and many shorter works; last month his passionate 25-minute work for viola and string orchestra, Abii ne viderem ("I turned away that I might not see"), got its American premiere from violist Kim Kashkashian, conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Their ECM recording of the same work has just been released...
Since 1991, Kancheli and his wife Lula have been exiles from Georgia. They have lived in Berlin, and will soon move to Belgium, where he will become composer in residence for the Antwerp Royal Orchestra. Yet Georgia is never far from his thoughts: one of his most recent works is called Trauerfarbenesland ("The Sorrow-Colored Land"). "I can't characterize my music as religious, although religious music is very close and dear to me," says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian. "When a person goes into a church, synagogue or mosque where there's no service going on, there...