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FRIDAY: In Concert. Two back-to-back replays of rock-music simulcasts from last year feature Alice Cooper, the Allman Brothers Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Curtis Mayfield, Seals and Crofts, Chuck Berry, Poco, and Bo Diddley. CH.5. WBCN-FM. 11:30. Color...
FRIDAY: In Concert. Two back-to-back replays of rock-music simulcasts from last year feature Alice Cooper, the Allman Brothers Band, Blood Sweat and Tears, Curtis Mayfield, Seals and Crofts, Chuck Berry, Poco, and Bo Diddley. CH.5. WBCN-FM. 11:30. Color...
...pang of growing up has an accompanying sound track. And decades later, car-radio playings of specific songs, good or bad, can be as acute a prod to sweet or rueful memory as Proust's tea cake. For Cameron Crowe, the pastry was named Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Poco. And Crowe didn't just listen to them. He interviewed them...
Many of these moments emerged in their first piece, Haydn's Quartet in D Major, Opus 20. The second movement, Un poco adagio affectuoso brought a confluence of musical constraint and emotional effervescence. In giving the upper melody to the cello, the bass line to the viola and a flirtation of rising and falling scale passages to the first and second violins, Haydn's piece created a mood that the quartet conveyed as sad, thoughtful and full of wonder. While the fourth movement, Presto e scherzando presented a direct contrast--with its expulsions of happiness in the form of harmonic...
...labored and the melody not sufficiently passionate. Here also the contrasting characters displayed by the different instruments detrimentally affected the Quartet's performance; while in most places these variations added interest, the dryness of the violist's sound in the Brahms grated on the ear. The second movement, "Romanze: Poco Adagio," sounded labored and muddy and the third movement was unmemorable. Only the fourth movement, again "Allegro," displayed the requisite character of intensity and dramatic excitement, rising momentously to its climax...