Word: orchestra
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...Leora I. Horwitz '96 of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra said that most music groups recruit new members only in the fall, so they do not table during spring registration
...most of the show will be traditional, with the dancers en pointe. The company will perform with a live student orchestra...
...past 150 years or so, as steel-stringed fiddles and machine-tooled valve horns replaced their forebears, the orchestra has achieved a golden sheen but at the expense of clarity. Instruments that are perfect for late- 19th century music do not necessarily suit 18th century compositions, not even those of Beethoven, who straddles the two eras. "Later instruments have a way of blurring the edges of the music," explains Gardiner. With original instruments, he says, "what you lose in opulence, you gain in extra transparency...
...time simply could not sustain chords as long as the instruments of today can. Gardiner takes Beethoven's metronome markings -- once scorned as impossibly brisk -- at face value. The performances are therefore far nimbler than is typical, but such is the virtuosity of Gardiner's 60-piece orchestra that the music never seems rushed or scrambled. Listen, for example, to the famous finale of the Ninth / Symphony. The "Turkish march" usually sounds like an inappropriately comic intrusion in an otherwise profound movement. Gardiner takes the passage nearly twice as fast as most other conductors do, and as a result...
Ruddigore, this season's production by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is something of a mixed bag. Musically speaking, the show is delightful, with Sullivan's score brought to life by a strong cast and a superb orchestra. But dramatically speaking, it is a disappointment: it suffers from an awkward, complex plot, and with a running time of three hours, is much too long...