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After several changes in membership, the Jayhawks seem to have settled on a sure-fire combination. The only remaining member from the very first Jayhawks performance in 1985 is bassist Marc Perlman. In fact, the whole band proved quite versatile. While Louris, having fully taken over the leadership of the band from the departed co-founder Mark Olson, provided most of the vocals on the Jayhawks' recent albums, both Johnson and drummer Tim O'Reagan contributed lead vocals onstage. O'Reagan's version of Charlie Rich's "Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs" was an excellent, soulful showcase...
When the violinist Itzhak Perlman walked onto the empty stage last Sunday to perform a recital in celebration of the life of arguably the greatest violinist of the 20th century, Jascha Heifetz, the expectation that filled the magnificent Symphony Hall was palpable. Some would say Perlman himself has taken over the mantle Heifetz has traditionally held. Even for those who don't believe that, this performance would have strengthened Perlman's bid for the title...
...recital began with the Vitali Chaconne, a staple of Perlman's repertoire but no less beautiful for that. The piece, which was the first piece that Heifetz performed in America, allowed the violinist to display a good deal of technical mastery within a supremely lyrical setting...
...size of Symphony Hall: if you play too softly not all of the audience can hear, and if you play too loudly you sacrifice tone and expression. The pianist Rohan De Silva managed to inject into the softer passages an intensity that made them carry throughout the auditorium, but Perlman's performance-and this is possibly the only criticism that can be made about it-at times lacked the dynamic variation that would be allowed by playing in a smaller room...
...second half of the concert opened with a moment characteristic of the whole performance; in the opening measures of the second movement of Strauss' three-movement "Sonata in E-flat Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 18," Perlman turned to the audience and raised his eyebrows expressively whilst playing the most beautiful melody-that subliminal expression on his face informed the feeling for the whole piece...