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Performers in the competition at Paine Hall last night were violinists Lynn Chang '75 and Robert Portney '75; cellist David Commanday '76; and planist Hao Huang...
Piano and violin recital by Arlene and Robert Portney. Works of Bach, Bartok. Beethoven, Liszt, Franck. Free. Sunday, April...
With a lot of chamber music on this weekend, Arlene and Robert Portney should be among the most exciting--Sunday evening at Quincy. Kenneth Hoffman...
Kenneth Hoffman ("Concerto Program at Kirkland," Oct. 17 Crimson) does Robert Portney a serious injustice in gratuitously assuming that Portney held a "cavalier attitude toward [the] audience." Instruments will fall out of tune, especially when it's very hot, and in my view Portney's decision to stop and tune in the cadenza (where a pause matters far less than in the body of the piece) showed not disdain for the audience, but consideration for its members' ears...
...also take issue with Hoffman's criticism that Portney's "hair-flicking, soul-stirring mannerisms" worked to the detriment of the performance. A virtuoso show-piece such as the Tchaikovsky needs to be played with a flourish (the age of the player is irrelevant); to demand that it be presented dispassionately is to miss to a large extent the point of the music. Jim Meadors...