Word: pianos
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Dudley events have included themed movie nights (back to back "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Roxanne," for instance), piano concerts, ballroom dance classes and Pub Rojo--a night of music and beer at Cafe Gato Rojo, located in the basement of Lehman Hall...
...second movement "Largo" continues the both the warmth and the darkness of tone, but with a more brooding aspect. Throughout were hints of dirrerent military sounds, jarring sorrowfully together. At times the orchestra seemed overly lugubrious, but the interesting interspersions of piano and harp added to the variety of this section...
...second part of the program made for a strange coincidence: that same evening, the BSO performed both the overture to The Magic Flute and a Mozart piano concerto. But if you missed hearing Freshman Concerto Competition winner Andrew Park '01 because you were at Symphony Hall for Murray Perahia, you may have missed...
Park's Harvard debut (Mozart's ninth piano concerto, in E-flat, K. 271) was stunning, in part because it didn't require some blatantly virtuosic vehicle. When a fellow who played the Rachmaninoff Second at the age of 14 decides to gamble on his musicianship more than on his technique, it is doubly impressive...
Park's extremely fast tempo in the rondo must have challenged the orchestra, but profitably. As the music zipped along, the piano runs were absolutely absolved of any scalar quality, and became bright, voluble utterances. The winds were especially agile and in accord, and the violists and violinists seemed to be listening to each other carefully. The thunderous applause at the finish might have been the doing of a nascent Andrew Park fan club...