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Stravinsky's Pulcinella arranged for oboes and english horn, and arias from Bach Cantatas; Dunster Library...
...that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against the viola section, both in numbers and in ability. The thread of the music continually got lost; whenever the ball was passed to the violas, they dropped it. The orchestra continued its unpolished performance when it moved on to Stravinsky's Pulcinella Concert Suite. Although the solo work was outstanding, the piece as a whole suffered from ragged entrances and poor intonation...
...June, the Kogan/Chang/Ma trio will give its final Harvard performance this Saturday with the Bach Society. They will pit their formidable technical and musical skills against the Beethoven Triple Concerto, known affectionately as the Cripple Concerto because of the tremendous demands it makes upon the soloists. Stravinsky's marvelous Pulcinella Suite will also be on the program...
...Pulcinella is the Jeffrey company's first near-miss after a string of Diaghilev revival hits. Last spring, for example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated...
...recapturing the setting and style of the original, and the work itself is performed in an engagingly ambivalent manner that seems to be saying both "Here it is, folks," and "Don't take all this too seriously." A little more of that frolicsome spirit might have helped Pulcinella. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other old Ballets Russes masterpieces just waiting for the Jeffrey treatment. Anyone for Zephyr et Flore? "JohnT.EIson