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Schuller's score is starkly modern, laced with traditional and atonal improvisations by a septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
...Eastern Europe (Nonesuch). For those who like their folk music ethnic, a group of seven American girls offers a pastiche of infrequently heard items from the banks of the Danube: Bulgarian planting songs, Hungarian love lyrics, Croatian hymns. Many of them are sung a capella-sustained by the septet's own strong harmony...
BEETHOVEN: SEPTET IN E FLAT MAJOR (Deutsche Grammophon). "I wish it were burned," said Beethoven of his early septet, because he hated to let its popularity overshadow his other works. He would surely set a match to the piece if he could hear this singable, danceable performance by the sonorous strings and woodwinds of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet...
BEETHOVEN: QUARTET IN A MINOR OPUS 132 (RCA Victor). This intricate work was written 25 years after the septet and sounds a world apart, especially in this crisp, exact performance by the Juilliard String Quartet. Technically, the Juilliard is superb; the pianissimo passages, for example, are feather-light and still warm, but the third movement, the "song of thanksgiving offered to the divinity by a convalescent," sounds curiously reserved...
...Crimson golf team, playing at The Country Club in Brookline (sits of the '63 U.S. open), battled a perennially powerful Bulldog septet and lost 5-2. Harvard captain Dormey Campen at number one, and Jim Buchanan at number three were the only Crimson winners...