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Acoustic problems aggravate the dismal character of most songs. The onstage orchestra dwarfs the ensemble. As a result, melodies are muffled and lyrics are often hard to understand. Slurred diction weighs down the rhythm even in the musical’s most popular song, “One Night in Bangkok...
...generous district budget, all schools in the city are able to offer small learning communities, but some wonder how small is too small. Many parents and faculty said they worry that small middle school populations do not give students the chance to participate in extracurricular activities like orchestra, theater, and sports...
Last Friday, one short month after their Halloween concert, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) tackled another ambitious program at Sanders Theatre. The concert showcased the HRO’s musical maturity, as the orchestra effectively delivered three pieces in radically different styles. The continuing creativity of conductor James Yannatos, who is near the end of his long tenure, was also on display; he premiered his sixth symphony...
...first movement depicted King Lear’s descent into madness, with waves of brass and timpani looming over twisting dissonances. Kravitz sang confidently, spanning large intervals with ease, and the orchestra maintained a sense of disturbed panic without drowning out the voice. The movement ended with an unexpected, troubled calm: the orchestral sound suddenly evaporated with a consonant but inconclusive chord of harmonics in the violins...
...more clearly (“Where am I? Fair daylight?”), the strings evoked the confused insight of the madman. When Lear pleaded to Cordelia, fleeting major chords appeared like glimmers of light, and then the movement ended with another uncertain evaporation of sound. Singer and orchestra performed the movement with the same subtlety and seriousness that characterized Weber’s piece from almost two centuries earlier...