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...only a glaring coincidence that I have slighted Eliot House by leaving it until last. Actually, there is an interesting concert of trombone works there on Sunday by Kevin Henry. He plays pieces by Saint-Saens, Dubois and others in the continuing Sunday Evening Concert Series. The performance is at 8 p.m. in the Eliot House Library. Have a good...
...prevalent--particularly among non-professional orchestras--that one should be especially thankful when all the elements of dynamics, color and suggestive language mesh. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance Saturday night, far from being methodical or colorless, succeeded in conveying all the evocative moods and imaginative instrumentation of Debussy, Saint-Saens and Dvorak...
...played with feeling, alternating between restraint and considerable power. Conductor James Yannatos brought out the talent in the HRO, combining the roles of the individual instruments with the orchestra as a whole. The dreamy forest of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the lightness of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bohemian flavor of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G were all pleasing to the ear and mind. The technical performance of the musicians--particularly Roy Kogan's solo in the Saint-Saens concerto--was also fine. The Dvorak ended the concert with...
...piano piece and, in the case of a concerto, into the orchestral score. However, the pianist must also attempt to keep these improvisations in the context of the whole work rather than display them simply as a showpiece. Kogan succeeded in this regard Saturday in his performance of Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto. He handled the difficult solo parts of the work with consummate ease and sensitivity, and coordinated well with the orchestra to produce an exciting rendering of the concerto...
...later. It suggests the many faces of Czech culture as Dvorak saw them--pastoral joy, Bohemian calm, and general happiness--all of which are captured in the work. The orchestra handled the transitions between these moods well, and the piece had more coherence and unity than the Debussy or Saint-Saens. In the first movement, the powerful horns and cellos, the cheerful forte, and the recapitulation of the work's opening theme were all impressive. The individual instruments--the woodwinds, horns and strings--also succeeded in intimating a Bohemian ambience...