Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Symphony recently hosted guest conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Andras Schiff in music of Brahms and Beethoven. These pieces were preceded by some rather tepid Tippett, the ritual dances from The Midsummer Marriage. That music will receive no further comment, except that the reading was rather soporific from an ensemble that so prides itself on favored-stepson status with the late British composer...
...relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique--but out of place. The second movement demonstrated Schiff's peerless trill technique, while the third hurdled toward a deft close as leprechaun-like as the diminutive pianist himself...
...Standing ovations have clearly been stripped of their meaning, since this middling concert got two. All in all, then, balance was an issue, and one would hope for more from the BSO. Perhaps pianist Maria Joao Pires will make a more favorable impression with the Mozart Concerto...
Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...
...Minyard herself choreographed the last piece of the first act, a jazzy dance set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The orchestra finally managed to pull itself together for this piece, and pianist Jason Leekeenan '02 effortlessly displayed his unbelievable finger-work on the notoriously difficult piano solos. Minyard's sexy, spirited choreography combined jazz moves, classical ballet and wacky gender-bending, and the dancers were obviously all having a ball onstage...