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...reunion class had someone special to applaud on the more serious side of the program. Its own Edward Biltcliffe '30 performed as piano soloist with the orchestra playing Lisst's "Hungarian Fantasy...
Bergen, Norway, will be gay with folk dancing and flags for its third annual festival (May 26-June 7). Famed for its musical sons Edvard Grieg and Violinist Ole Bull, the city will feature Scandinavian music played by Bergen and Copenhagen orchestras. Star soloist: Russian Violinist David Oistrakh...
This enthusiasm leads Poto towards programming his concerts a little too ambitiously, however. On Friday night the orchestra tackled Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade, a showpiece which demands that an orchestra be strong in all its sections; every first chair player must be a capable soloist. Although there were fine individual performances in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from Richard Bogomolny on violin, Michael Senturia on oboe, and Cynthia Deery on English horn, other sections, noticeably 'cello and French horn, were weak...
...sheer volume to make its effect, but did great credit to the leadership of conductor Michael Greenebaum. From an organizational standpoint alone, the cantata is a huge undertaking; Greenebaum succeeded in offering both a well-rehearsed ensemble and a measure of interpretive continuity. He was especially fortunate in soprano soloist Jean Lunn. To her customary refinement of diction and gifted insight into the music as a whole. But her singing and a few instrumental solos were the only high spots. The chorus sang with colorless tone and indifferent diction most of the time. Furthermore, Greenebaum made the texture bottom-heavy...
...Berlin Philharmonic is up to its white ties in tradition. Its first renowned conductor was Hans von Bülow, distinguished among other things for the fact that his wife Cosima ran away with (and eventually married) Richard Wagner. Johannes Brahms played with the Philharmonic as a piano soloist, and the famed Arthur Nikisch became its conductor in time to take the orchestra to Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. In the next half a century, a lot of things went out of the world, including czars, and Germany became famed for other names than Brahms...