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...keep around is Valery Panov, 35, once a leading dancer with the Kirov Ballet. In March 1972, Panov applied for exit visas for himself and his wife Galena, 24, to emigrate to Israel. Reaction was vicious and immediate. Panov was dismissed from the Kirov, while Galena was demoted from soloist to the corps de ballet. Since then, Panov has been continually harassed. His phone has been cut off, he can receive no mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they...
...ready for them. He performed the first movement of Vivaldi's concerto in D major for cello--a violin concerto rescored for cello--as though his appearance were just another night shift on the assembly line. He payed little attention to the orchestra, which had difficulty adjusting to the soloist's rhythm. In the second movement, Starker finally shed his coldness, swaying his body to listen to the concertmaster and moving his eyebrows as he explored the beauty of Vivaldi's larghetto. In the final movement Starker relapsed, although he played with more feeling than he had in the first...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Stravinsky: Petrushka; and Janos Starker, cello soloist, in concerti by Dvorak and Vivaldi. Tickets: $4-3-2-1 at Holyoke Center Ticket Office. Friday, November...
...audience responded enthusiastically to the orchestra's performance of this difficult work, and gave a standing ovation--which was mostly for Wolff but was also for Baker, and the Bach Society. Because soloist or no soloist, accidents or no accidents, they're good...
...movement where seemingly by accident a melody found its way into the oboe part. The movement is atypical of de Falla and slightly reminiscent of Poulenc. The first and second movements are far more percussive with frequent marcato chordal passages. Moshell and Wolff, their earlier roles reversed, were here soloist and conductor. The breakdown of the harpsichord precluded any fair judgment of the piece or its performance...