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Bobbi Humphrey, a jazz flautist and soloist who made her name playing with Byrd (imagine--now he's the bird) is playing with the ubiquitous Webster Lewis at the Berklee Performance Center this Sunday. Shows are at 7 and 10 p.m. I managed to miss Webster Lewis at both the Western Front and Symphony Hall. Looks like I'll dodge him successfully for a third time...
...concert opened with an old warhorse, "Autumn" from Vivaldi's The Seasons, which, as interpreted on Saturday night, justified its popularity. The piece featured Shumsky as violin soloist and conductor. The orchestra was extremely cut down, and resembled a sixteen piece Baroquesized chamber ensemble. The choice of music provided an excellent vehicle for Shumsky's awe-inspiring technical capability and his power to elicit clean, solid tone. The accompaniment by the chamber ensemble, especially in the final Allegro, had a shimmering, airy quality--one that marks a thoughtful interpretation of Italian Baroque music. Michael Curry, in particular, carried the obbligato...
Equally convincing was the performance of the first four movements from Mozart's "Haffner" Serenade, K. 250. Again, Shumsky played a dual role as conductor and violin soloist. The work, Mozart's first great orchestral effort, retains both a light, chamber music coloration and a tendency toward a concertant style. (This style makes soloists operate in opposition to the orchestra...
South House Music Society. All strings invited to orchestra sightreading of works of Bach, Mozart and Schubert in the Cabot Hall living room at 3 p.m. David Sogg, soloist; Peter Lurye, Richard Hoffman and Valerie Taylor, conductors...
...Harlem-dweller suggests that if whites lived in a rat-infested slum, they too might be moved to riot. "Time Brings About Change" and "They Keep Comin'," on the other hand, are both paens to black progress, one bitter and funny, the other proudly insistent. In the former, one soloist pokes fun at the discomfort busing is causing whites. "Once we walked nine miles to school, while they took the bus," he sings. "Now they want to talk to school, and leave the driving...