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...unfortunate contrast, the orchestra was disappointing in Schubert's Symphony No. 5. The first movement was rushed, and the slow movement was uncomfortably splattered with bad intonation and overlooked sharps and flats in the strings. In the minuet the strings were not together with the winds, and were themselves in internal rhythmic strife. The finale was more compelling, especially near the end. When the players were in tune and together, the orchestra, though small, made a big, rich sound. The winds were generally dependable, although the horns occasionally faltered and the oboes battled as to which of them would play...
...ability of performers and listeners to keep up the kind of concentration needed to hear good music. The effort was great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert E Flat Mass, No. 6, madrigals by Schein, Morley, and Monteverdi, the Gabrielli In Eclesiis, Giuseppe Sarti's Fuga a otto voci reali, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...Schubert Mass is itself a work which is long in the hearing and long in the understanding. It is big and loosely organized. What contributed most to conductor Schmidt's reading of the work was his complete control of balance among singers and players. At times, one began to lose track of the development and growth of themes but this could be entirely laid at the door of technical inadequacies on the part of the performers. In addition the repeated fugal entrances of the chorus in the Credo and Gloria were, through their overt pompousness, a built-in weakness...
Sometimes the mélange of music from competing camps in the park can be distracting. One recent performance by the Municipal Concerts Orchestra was so bombarded by the thumping, amplified rock 'n' roll of The Young Rascals near by that, for many listeners, Schubert's Unfinished became Schubert's Unheard. More often, however, musical textures from silk to denim mingle as harmoniously as their motley adherents, thousands of whom are experiencing for the first time the special pleasures of music against a backdrop of lakes, trees and the glittering towers surrounding the park. As Municipal...
...meeting devoid of commercialism and pervaded by an air of easy familiarity. During the day, concertgoers chatted with the performers on the street, dropped in on rehearsals to turn pages for the players and to delight in Russia's Oistrakh and America's Katchen arguing about a Schubert trio in German: "What difference does it make, Julius, whether we play it at your tempo or mine? We are going to have to play it the way the master tells us." As it worked out, the moderate tempo they agreed upon was much too slow for the cellist...