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...years later, were pleased to pony up $101.25 a ticket to revisit the musical fever of a more innocent time: theirs. The house was packed with so many Jersey boys and girls of a certain age that we might have been at the Meadowlands. On stage and in the orchestra seats, the mood was very...
...Harvard, this celebration starts off appropriately enough with our own Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO). This Saturday, Nov. 19, the group will perform its annual fall concert, featuring Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 Koechel 467” with Robinson Professor of Humanities Robert D. Levin ’68, along with Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Symphony...
Never shortchanging his Harvard audiences, he makes the most of his time here: last spring he performed Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 19 K. 459” with the Bach Society Orchestra, and this spring he will perform Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 24 K. 491” with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...Levin-ed parts of Saturday’s program present challenges of their own to the orchestra. Debussy’s short piece begins with a lonely (and nerve-racking) flute melody before unfolding into a fabulously French flight of fancy. The Beethoven, one of the most difficult works in the orchestral repertoire, demands both technical proficiency and musical maturity...
...seems that MSO is up to the task. Founded in 1984, it is Harvard’s “premier classical-sized orchestra,” according to MSO board member Carissa B. Meyer ’06. Its small size distinguishes it from other campus orchestras, giving it an intimate, non-intimidating feel. The current music director, Akiko Fujimoto, has conducted the orchestra for two years, previously led the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, and currently holds several conducting positions in the greater Boston area...