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Last weekend was an excellent one for Harvard, musically speaking. Among the least-advertised but most pleasurable events was a free concert in the Dunster Library on April 8, given by the Van Swieten Quartet, who are in residence at the Longy School. They played rarely heard early Beethoven (the Op. 18 String Quartet in C minor) with a musicality that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending...
After intermission the Quartet turned to a sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
Last weekend was an excellent one for Harvard, musically speaking. Among the least-advertised but most pleasurable events was a free concert in the Dunster Library on April 8, given by the Van Swieten Quartet, who are in residence at the Longy School. They played rarely-heard early Beethoven (the Op. 18 String Quartet in C minor) with a musicality that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending...
After intermission the Quartet turned to a sprawling Mendelssohn work, whose first movement tried our patience, even with the score on hand. The humidity took its toll in the andante, but the prior minuet was full of subtlety and humor, and the closing presto sparkled. The four adults were a cut above even very talented Harvard chamber musicians, few of whom could afford violinist Kinloch Earle's 1630 Amati...
...program featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quarter," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugin's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night...