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Cabot House Music Society. Min-Young Kim, violin, and David Horne, piano, perform works by Bach, Chausson, and Prokofiev. Cabot House, E-entry, 5:30 p.m. Free...
Cabot House Music Society. Min-YoungKim, violin, and David Horne, piano, perform worksby Bach, Chausson, and Prokofiev. Cabot House,E-entry, 5:30 p.m. Free...
...image on the screen is often imprecise and unclear. The music also accomplishes nothing more than a gesture. Two themes dominate, one an expensive, lyrical motif, which appears in all the places one would expect it, and the other a rapid undulating figure which may have indicated tension when Prokofiev employed it in the "Fiery Angel" but now only suggests spiders crawling furiously about their webs...
...concentration of the artists and the audience lay heavy in the air as the other-wordly music floated out from the dais. When Perlman embarked upon a section that featured precipitously falling thirty-second notes, much like their counterparts in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto, a few gasps of awe and pleasure could be heard...
...characteristic enchantment and romance, to translate predictably into the traditional ballet form. The Boston Ballet's production of Cinderella, however, offers a surprising and successful mix of fable, fantasy and farce. Ben Stevenson's unique choreography combined with David Walker's exquisite sets and costumes and the energetically unpredictable Prokofiev score create new artistic possibilities for this magical storybook tale...