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...working out movements using the dancers as a sculptor uses clay. He may throw out weeks of expensive rehearsal time if things do not progress properly. This year's Images, an innocent but enigmatic piece that evokes ancient rituals, did not jell. "I started out with a nice Schubert piece," Taylor recalls, "but after two weeks I saw I was getting nowhere. Three weeks before the opening, I said, 'Quick, I need some music.' I had some Debussy piano pieces in my record collection, and I thought, 'That's better.' I started all over...
...play Molly was the attraction at the restored Dock Street Theater (see following story). Noon at the Dock Street was the hour for a daily series of chamber music programs under the co-directorship of Pianists Peter Serkin and Charles Wadsworth. The first recital consisted of works by Pergolesi, Schubert and Dvorak, and the capacity audience of 463 rose to its feet, applauding...
...Madrigals of Concord and the Broad Cove Chorale of Hingham will perform music of Brahms, Schubert, Faure and American antiphonal works for women's voices. In the Fogg Art Museum Courtyard...
Boozy Sessions. Schubert's Songs is not a how-to-do-it book, although musicians might profit from the author's insight. In discussing the song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter Journey), that stark "chain of variations on the theme of grief," the author notes a brightening of atmosphere brought about by a transition from the minor to major key. Singers beware, he warns: "Things seem less desperate-but Schubert is not finished yet. By reverting to the acerbity of the original minor mode during the postlude, he rules out any possibility of self-indulgence or sentimental self-pity...
Most of the current Schubert literature is based, as Fischer-Dieskau notes, on the documents unearthed and published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from...