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...absence of inspiration was particularly disappointing in the finale, but by this time Tate had ceased trying to goad the BSO to action. Whether from frustration or disinterest, his take on the Brahms offered few surprises in phrasing and even fewer variations in dynamics and tempi. Only the mellifluous soli of the winds merited much remembrance...
...citizenry might rebel; a demoralized army could conceivably fold. "Nobody wants to fight for Saddam anymore," says the expatriate Iraqi. "Four thousand Americans could march in and take Baghdad." But the deprivations may also have sapped any stirrings of revolt. "There is no energy to fight the regime," says Soli Ozel, an assistant professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins. "People are just scrambling to find food. Saddam is more powerful than ever...
...have failed to compensate for the Concertgebouw Hall's famed reverberation. Even though orchestral entrances are almost always well-synchronized, the subsequent lag time in the hall results in an acoustic clouding that renders the sound more two-dimensional than one might expect. Very exposed passages (e.g. the wind soli at the beginning of the second symphony's Allegretto grazioso) suffer less from the reverberation, and the sheen makes up for the slight lack of warmth. A final quibble: the effect of dynamic contrast is also dulled to a certain extent, with the ends seemingly a bit truncated at both...
Though he never throws restraint entirely to the winds, I would guess that Haitink perspires quite a bit in the last movement, ending with a satisfying rendition of the tiered descending scales and "stuck car-horn" trombone soli...
...Your truth is your truth," says Soli, while his helpers start trying to sell videotapes of his latest incarnation. "My truth is my truth...