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...also lead to muddled fables like L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Boy and the Sorceries). Described as a "lyric fantasy" and based on a story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable zoo of cats, bats, frogs, squirrels and dragonflies...
Other moments in this concert are less successful Coleman's piece 'Forms and Sounds for Wind Quintet' in ten movements has high theoretic ambitions but in performance is tedious. Coleman states that it is "a combination of diatonic and atonal intervals that creates a form out of a sound and a sound out of a form in which the five instruments blend, not by coming together, but by moving in opposing directions." The theory sounds impressive but after about five minutes (and the piece lasts 25) the lack of rhythmic color or dynamic change sterilizes the composition's impact...
Against a strong Oral Roberts quintet, Silver was devastating, canning 38 points and ripping off 19 rebounds. But later in the season in a decisive weekend against Penn and Princeton. Silver could only manage 6 points and 5 rebounds in a Harvard double dip that dropped the Crimson from Ivy contention...
...Inventive bit of programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string quartet with HRO concerto competition winner Lynn Chang as first violinist. Their sound was well blended, and if a lack of sensitivity to the light-hearted humor of the last two movements ended the piece on a dry note, the performance as a whole showed a unity and sincerity of interpretation...
...Jarvis's quintet also enjoyed a shooting advantage from the floor, hitting for a .482 average, while the Brown team shot only .397. Tom Farrell was Brown's leading scorer with 20 points...