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Featured pianist Judith Yeager '53 will be heard in her first solo performance with the orchestra. Soloists in the Handel composition are Sandor Shapiro '54, Paul Revitt '55, and Robert Swaney...
Davison, who is doing graduate work in the Harvard music department, warmed up with the Preclude from Bach's Fourth English Suite-a routine piece, mechanically played. After a pleasant set of Variations by Buxtehude, Davison Joined with violinist Paul Revitt to play Schubert's Duo Sonata, (op.162). Despite the high opus number, it is a product of Schubert's youth, full of happy tunes and harmonic surprises. But Revitt's thievish tone and generally erratic technique made thorough enjoyment of the price difficult. Three Brahms Intermezzi followed, all of them receiving broad, well-molded performances...
...rich and varied content of the works. The reliance on structure can backfire, though, and the final section of his Introduction Chorale, Preclued, and Fugue was weighted down with dry academics. For an encore Davison played the scherzo from his violin sonata, music full of motion and vitality. Revitt made up for his earlier lapses with a sensitive, rhymically vibrant performance...
...Messiah. Russell Stanger, who continues to gain poise and authority on the podium, did a masterful job of keeping everyone in line. The orchestra, despite the absence of several of its best players, sounded much better than last time. Part of the success must go to concert-master Paul Revitt 1G, who worked hard and kept the whole violin section in line...
...layouts, a special testimonial issue, salesman's "thermometers" in the office and other features of the hard-driving Annenberg technique, did not bring in the business as fast as required. Rapid changes of advertising managers did the magazine no great good among agency men. Dark-haired, resourceful Nelson Revitt Perry, formerly with Curtis publications, has now held down the job for three years...
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