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Harvard, 2-1 at Niemand-Robison Field R H E Harvard 101 000 0 -- 2 40 Cornell...
...gets a standing ovation just for walking onstage. k.d. lang took it all in stride, though, when she crossed the stage of Symphony Hall and caught her first glimpse of an explosively enthusiastic and entirely unseated audience. lang launched almost immediately into her first number, a bluesy Willard Robison song called "Don't Smoke in Bed," whose admonition she has called "another way of saying 'Don't dare sleep with anyone else...
...ebullient song of the birds and the rushing whistle of a brook, despite the initial overpowering of the second violins. During the more "violinistic" spots where the warmth of the intended solo violin would have more richly depicted the sleepy scenes of shepherds napping and dogs baying, Ms. Robison courageously puffed away and made the leap of faith that her modern flute could pull it off as well. And pull...
...silvery depictions of drunkenness, frantic hunts and feasting of the F major Autumn concerto, Mr. Gibbons adroitly adapted an organ set at modern pitch to the other three seasons' orchestrations. He generously restrained his playing and rightly gave center-stage glory to the spellbinding pied piper figure of Ms. Robison...
...Robison deseves high praise for her sensitive and innovative arrangement and for throwing a little verve into the often staid domain of classical music...