Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of last Monday's concert was a delight; the rest, a puzzle. The Brandeis players produced a more-than-competent performance of Haydn's Trio No. 5, for piano, violin, and cello; and their execution of the other work before the intermission, a Schubert song for voice, piano, and clarinet, was superb. But about Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," which took up the rest of the evening, it is difficult to be so enthusiastic...
...Haydn, Robert Koff's violin and Madeline Foley's cello were both excellent. A shade less successful was Martin Boykan's effort on the piano, which seemed at times to drown out the rest of the trio. Keeping the top of the instrument closed was a step in the right direction, but it tended to make the tone a bit on the muddy side...
Sunday, August 5: 10:00 Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event. 2:30 Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch; Brahms; Hayden Variations; Martinu; Fantasies symphoniques; Beethoven; Piano Concerto No.5, Emperor (Serkin...
...compliment you.") Since then, many a conductor has deemed Time Cycle worthy of one, if not two, hearings, and it has become a frequently performed modernist work. Last week at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont., it was played with Foss himself conducting from the piano. Festival Co-Director Glenn Gould praised it as "the most important work in the last ten years...
...July 28: 10 a.m. Shed - BSO Open Rehearsal. 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Charles Munch - Handel: Walter Music - Haieff: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Janis...