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...characteristic Friday evening at Symphony Hall, a curious phenomenon occurs. Ten minutes before the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) strikes its first note, a predominantly white-haired throng of season subscribers makes its way through the ornate doors of the hall, down the lighted aisles and fills the seats of the auditorium. Moments later, moving virtually unnoticed, a small number of unbefitting young people shuffle through the mobs of veteran classical music connoisseurs, finding their seats in the shadows of the older crowd...
...majority of the audience seemed to have memorized the lyrics, and those who were not as familiar with the score could infer meaning from the telling facial expressions of the cast. In theory, Sullivan’s music alone could have carried the show, and the well-rehearsed orchestra, led by concert mistress Joanna N. Huey ’06, conveyed the score’s many nuances...
...first picked up the viola, to his undergraduate years at Harvard, to the present day, as a member of a quartet of mathematicians. His current repertoire includes “the classical quartet literature, up to Dvorak and Ravel.” Having played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra while studying at Harvard, Dean Gross still attends alumni sight readings. He humbly added, “They put me next to someone competent so I can keep up. This fall I got to play viola in the Band’s 85th anniversary concert—it was a joke...
...Perhaps the distinction between To the Stars and Corea’s previous work is its motivation. Corea says that To The Stars represents the marriage of three of his greatest passions: “My passion as a composer/performer, my passion for the Elektric Band as a perfect orchestra, and my passion for L. Ron Hubbard as the ideal artist.” He says (out of his nearly one hundred album discography), “This project is my favorite recording...
...Quartet No. 1; Piazzola’s Tango for 4. Presented by the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $20, $10 for students. 8 p.m. Harvard Epworth Methodist Church. (ELF)MUSIC | The Music of Yannatos & BartokThe Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform a superb program of classical music, including a selection written by its conductor, James Yannatos. Come hear one of the greatest collegiate orchestras in the world. Other selections will include Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and a surprise piece by the HRO concerto competition winner, LaMont J. Barlow...