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...Schubert songs. This is the 200th anniversary of Schubert's death, and everyone is programming his music. Cleveland tried to pick seven crowd-pleasers, but the lied, an intimate genre for solo voice and piano, does not always survive orchestration. The two songs that Brahms transcribed, "Memnon" and "An Schwager Kronos," not surprisingly, were very successful. But Kurt Gillman's "Du Bist Die Ruh" and Felix Mottl's "Standchen" invited exuberance and high volume where restraint and calm would have better served the lilting melodies...
...Standchen" should have been the prettiest of the set, but Dohnanyi's tempo was too fast. It made the song's tenderness debonair. But the last song, "An Schwager Kronos," was perfect. Baer kept close to the text, and the orchestra's playing was wonderfully subdued, until the triumphant final fanfare, which sounded better in the horns than it ever could on a piano. The music was so, compelling that it more than made up for the few previous disappointments. Baer got the loud and abundant applause he deserved...
Freshman Jenny Franzese dropped a good bunt down the third-base line, and junior Sue Traub beat the throw to the plate. However, B.U. catcher Elaine Schwager blocked the plate and applied...
...MacMillan ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 Iwamoto 1b 3 1 2 0 0 0 Pasinosky 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 Rajaratnam 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 West p 1 0 1 1 0 0 Smith lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 Schwager c 2 0 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 26 2 5 2 0 3 HARVARD AB R H BI BB SO Lee 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 Feinberg 2b 1 1 0 0 2 1 Hartl c 2 0 1 0 0 1 Kreuder...
...lead was short-lived, however, BU banged out its first three hits of the game, the last of which was Schwager's RBI double, to tie the game in the top of the fifth. Carr settled down and retired the next two batters with runners on second and third...