Word: orchestra
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...past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning his professional career at fifteen with the Hatters Steel Orchestra...
...night before Thanksgiving day may not seem like the ideal evening to journey out to Symphony Hall--particularly not if one has never been there before--but the Boston Symphony Orchestra's performance that night certainly gave the audience something for which to be thankful...
Guest pianist Lief Ove Andsnes, however, captured much of the sincere passion of the piece with a dramatic enthusiasm that enraptured the audience. Born in Norway in 1970 and entering the Bergen Music Conservatory in 1986, Andsnes has gone on to perform with some of the most renowned orchestras and in some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world. Watching the music fluidly spill out of his hands, notes tumbling around the stage like small explosions of glitter, it becomes easy to understand how his success has reached the point that it has. The sprightly romance of Schumann...
...first portion of the symphony, which starts out as quiet as death, grew louder then softer as the piece progressed, and never let its ominous undertones escape. Before too long, the familiar melody of "Frere Jacques" creeps into the orchestra, seducing one section at a time until every instrument had slowly succumbed. This movement is known to parody a funeral march, but what is being parodied--the funeral or the children's song--remains a morbid mystery...
Under the frenzied yet fantastic con-ducting of Roberto Abbado, Mahler's work builds up until the final movement, when all of the ominous pressure that had been maliciously swimming at the bottom of the music suddenly leaps forth in an explosion of sound. Abbado led the orchestra to the symphony's profound and dramatic conclusion with a zeal that matched the intensity (and volume) of the piece itself. On his podium, Abbado demonstrated what all great conductors should strive to do--he nearly became the music, in all of its near-violent splendor. By the time he finally...