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Kirkland House continues its active musical season by presenting Robert Portney, one of the most gifted violinists ever to study at Harvard. His program has a number of spectaculars that should be attractive to those who are often scared off by solo violin recital repertoire...
...program is an unusual work, most notable in the final Theme and Variations movement. The lighter moments were many: a strings-celeste variation that sounded like bad ballet music, a jazz-like clarinet cadenza, and some frantic runs for the strings leading perfectly to the mock ending. Robert Portney's playing was dazzling in the solo violin variations...
...orchestra performs alone in the Haydn "Drum-roll" Symphony and the Variaciones Concertantes of the Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera. The latter involves solos from all sections of the orchestra including an extremely flashy violin variation played by Robert Portney '74. The rest of the orchestra's personnel includes members of the tennis, lacrosse, swimming and baseball teams, an ex-conductor of the Bach Society, the daughter of a world-famous harpsichordist, a former House Master, an oboist who does remarkable animal imitations, and, pound for pound, the greatest tympanist in the world. This unusual aggregation will be conducted by Martin...