Word: schubert
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BOSTON FINE ARTS QUARTET in a program of Haydn and Schubert. Gardner Musenm; 8:00 P.M. Free...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Vienna Octet will present a program of Michael Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium, 3:00 p.m. Tickets: $2.00. Call...
Quartets by Schubert and Haydn rounded out the program. The Schubert work, a posthumous publication in G minor, is an aggressive and sometimes rowdy piece; the group was sensitive to its contrasts and usually maintained good balance. The weakest moments of the evening came in the Haydn quartet (Op. 77, No. 2), where alower tempos brought rather tentative playing and weaker tone. The modern work was both the best performed and most interesting work of the concert...
...bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles, and that Goethe contrives his only real story, of Faust and the young Gretchen, whose seduction...
...moved swiftly but unostentatiously on the podium, evoking the response he wanted rather by an expressive face and pair of hands than by the discursiveness he often condemned in conductors. Davison always believed that music could speak for itself and that explanation of contrapuntal technique or rhapsodizing on Schubert only frustrated that desire to sing which is natural to a well-trained chorus...