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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will present Schutz's "The Christmas Story" and Stravinsky's "Petrouchka Balllet Suite" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. Tickets are $1, $2, $3 at the Coop or the door...
...concert manager worth his 10% feels the same way, but when Jay Hoffman and George Schutz speak of their work, there is a decided absence of self-serving tone. Hoffman, 32, and Schutz, 28, comprise one of the busiest, most imaginative and most unorthodox management teams in New York. They have just wound up a highly successful month-long Mozart Festival at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall under the sponsorship of Lincoln Center. Skeptics would have considered Mozart box-office suicide during a dreary New York summer. Yet the festival presented 26 consecutive concerts featuring more than 100 orchestra, chamber...
Full Houses, P.D.Q. For four years, Hoffman and Schutz have been producing offbeat concerts successfully on the premise that there is a sizable audience willing to buy programs first and names second. To reach that audience, they adopt tactics that would horrify conventional concert managers, who like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes...
Apart from original programming, Hoffman and Schutz have won the concertgoers' applause with a few other convention-breaking ideas. They have frequently scheduled performances at 5:45 on Sunday afternoons. Explains Hoffman: "Have you ever walked around in New York on a Sunday afternoon? At 5:15 there are hordes of people walking the streets with nothing to do. These are the post-museum, predinner people. We can fill a need for these people...
Unlike his recent predecessors, conductor Jack Jackson acknowledges the importance of performing rarely-heard early works. Friday's program began with the Sixth Suite of the Banchetto Musicale (1617) by Hermann Schein, a significant but neglected forerunner of Heinrich Schutz. The Suite, consisting of five stately dances, emerged slightly Stokowskified; an excessive number of strings, plus modern oboes and timpani, produced a far richer sound than their Baroque counterparts. And one could make a nice chorale out of the notes missed by the brass (an off night for them generally). But no matter; this was charming music, realized with spirit...