Word: raveled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarty Erickson--Peter Middleton, flute Performing Avant-qarde flute techniques, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., 7 p.m., New England Conservatory Repertory Orchestra will perform works of Berlioz. Ravel, and Wagner...
Bizet, Brahms and Ravel--Deborah Callas, vocalist: Quincy House...
...concert opened with a performance of Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose), which quite often succeeded in evoking the composer's refreshing fairy-tale images. 'Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant' benefitted from luminous solo passages by the flute and clarinet and conjured a sensuous picture of Sleeping Beauty; the plaintive and delicate waltz Ravel wrote for Beauty and the Beast received a skillful treatment from the upper woodwinds and contrabassoon. But dynamic imbalances proved frustrating here as in the concerto. Too often the less important lines were simply not sufficiently subordinated; exquisitely played solo passages...
...PROBLEMS of imbalance were troublesome in Ravel, they were considerably more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite...
...strings or even among themselves, and the brass added imprecise timing to their list of sins. However, the conductor is meant to notice and correct such imperfections of balance and ensemble; thus, with him the responsibility must rest. It is extremely unfortunate that potentially first-rate performances of the Ravel and Beethoven works were spoiled by Lurye's carelessness regarding fundamentals. The persistent inattention to these elementary problems placed a severe strain on the patience of the listener and nullified a number of outstanding individual performances by the talented members of the Bach Society...