Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre. The program will consist of Vivaldi's "Concerto for Flute and Strings," Karen Monson, soloist; Webern's "Symphony Opus 21," William Conable, guest conductor; Brahm's "Piano Concerto #1," Ursula Oppens...
Labelled the "musical highlight of Winterfest," Tuesday's Boston Symphony concert marked the first appearance of a Harvard undergraduate as soloist, pianist Eugene Indjic '69. His performance certainly justified the honor; an achievement even more impressive considering the piece, the hall, and the conductor. Indjic chose to play Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2, one of the largest and most formidable of piano works. Aside from its extreme technical demands, the concerto presents a challenge of organization; most critically, of pacing and uniting the sprawling first movement, a problem of drama as well as form. The last three movements, while...
...merits of Indjic's showing were his own; the contributions of conductor Erich Leinsdorf fell rather short of the inspirational. While visibly concerned with keeping orchestra and soloist together, he allowed them repeatedly to part company, primarily in the second movement. Orchestral climaxes seemed halfhearted, and the solo playing (that of cellist Jules Eskin) almost mediocre. For all his apparent courtesy, Leinsdorf did little to assist the pianist in matters of detail, and in several instances appeared to intimidate Indjic into hasty exits...
...Seventh Annual Young Performers' Program in which Leonard Bernstein conducts selections from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with four young pianists taking turns as soloist...
After the last horrendous arrabbiato, in which pianist and orchestra were joined by a chorus of 72 men, the audience sat stupefied for several seconds and then released a roar of approval that persisted through eleven curtain calls. Soloist Pietro Scarpini and the Cleveland had safely and on the whole admirably negotiated the longest and, in the opinion of many pianists, the most difficult piano concerto ever composed. It was, in fact, a monstrosity, as some critics limply acknowledged. But they had to concede, along with Cleveland's crusty old George Szell, that it was "a monstrosity full...