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...French impressionism is more to your taste, the Bach Society is presenting an all-Ravel concert in honor of his one hundredth birthday. Neal Stulberg will be the Soloist in the infrequently heard Plane Concerto in G, a work which shows where Ravel's student Gershwin Picked up a few of his tricks. Friday...
Sibellus Violin Concerto, Brahms Symphony #4, and Ruggles Men and Mountains: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor, Lynn Chang, violin soloist; Sanders...
Lefkowitz has not always been this diligent. His attitude toward practicing and learning changed the year before he came here. He had been touring in Israel and Switzerland as a soloist with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. While in Switzerland he won first prize for violin soloists in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras, earning the opportunity to remain and study with Max Rostal, who has been called "the greatest violin teacher in Central Europe." Lefkowitz was 16 at the time, and living in Switzerland made him miserable. He was lonely and he's never played as poorly...
Mozart's Second Horn Concerto is a thematically and harmonically uninteresting work, and soloist Charles Kavaloski--principal horn with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and HRO alumnus--did nothing to liven it up. His tone and pitch were flawless, but his interpretation was deadpan and uninspired. The third movement is written as a spirited march, but Kavaloski played it like an exercise and looked as though the monotony of it all were putting him to sleep. "Iberia" is too flashy and difficult a work to do justice to at 1 a.m. It was the only truly entertaining work on the program...
Ronan Lefkowitz, soloist in the Concerto, impressed the audience with his mature, contemplative interpretation, which was delivered with such liquid phrasing and soothing tone that the emerging performance created a sense of reverence for the work, which the audience did not expect to feel. The first movement was played slowly, almost ponderously, but with careful pacing and calm control so that it moved with inexorable continuity. At the movement's highpoint, Lefkowitz displayed dazzling virtuosity in the intertwining, unbelievably intricate Kreisler cadenza. The audience was fascinated and broke into applause after the first movement. The third movement Rondo picked...