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...music occasionally sounded a little too careful and restrained, especially at the beginning of the piece. Although the first movement started out rather sluggishly with intonation problems, the orchestra gradually built momentum towards the end. The work finally culminated in a series of strong, majestic (albeit rather brass-heavy) chords. The members of the orchestra, which included a slew of freshmen, breathed together impressively throughout the piece under Demirjian’s direction...
...Jones, director of the University Choir, opened the second half of the concert with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata No. 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.” The rich sound of the choir, accompanied by the baroque bass lines of the orchestra, filled Sanders Theatre with the graceful and light mood of the first movement...
...rich and skillfully conveyed a spiritual sense of love and longing. The charming two-note slurs of the oboe solo in the fourth movement complemented the well-phrased vocal lines with grace. The cantata culminated in a grand finale as the full voices of the choir soared above the orchestra...
...highlight of the night was definitely Elkies’s wonderfully sensitive performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra in C minor, “Choral Fantasy.” After staff moved the piano to nest within the orchestra, the audience awaited Elkies’s appearance with almost palpable anticipation...
...orchestra and the piano passed the main melody of the work back and forth in a well-voiced dialogue throughout the piece. Demirjian’s direction deftly brought out the layered texture of the pizzicato from the strings, melodic lines from the woodwinds, and Elkies’s impressively controlled trills, especially after the entry of the chorus...