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...gone along with -- call it destiny, luck, whatever. I've very much been that sort of person my entire life." Born New Year's Eve 1937 in Port Talbot, Wales, the son of a master confectioner and baker, Hopkins entered the Cardiff School of Music and Drama to study piano. "I was a poor student," he says, "very slow, very backward. I drifted into acting because, literally, I had nothing better...
Blodgett Chamber Music Series. The Mendelssohn String Quartet, Blodgett Artists in Residence, perform Mozart's String Quartet in D Major, K. 499, the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas' String Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...clear that Saturday night's concert at Sanders Theatre was more an "event" than a chamber music concert. This atmosphere was only reinforced by the nature of the programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music concert, the flagrant insertion of Bartok's Sonata into a menu of otherwise standard (and somewhat related) fare, seemed justified only by the appeal of alliteration. Before...
Though the lyrical opening of the second movement was plagued problems similar to those of the first movement, the pianist, Mihae Lee, heretofore invisible in following Chase, effectively initiated and propelled the exchange between violin and piano as the movement climaxes; this instance of rhythmic alternation, the piano asserting one chord and the violin rebutting with another...
...Additionally, although the players hadobviously coordinated their phrasing beforehand,each one merely read through his or her own part,seemingly disregarding the other musicians. Thesecond movement, a Scherzo, was more intriguing,as each repetition of a given part acquired a newcharacter, slightly more gentle, or much moreaggressive. The opening piano chords of thefollowing movement, an exquisitely personal andpainful document of sorrow, did much to establishthe intimacy of the setting and the spectralnature of the sound. But Chase's vibrato uponentering destroyed the perfection of the moment,and the syncopations o the climax were far frommoving. In the Finale, though still...