Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Simon Excels as Soloist...
This year Capp is back. Other professional entertainers are nightclub singer Karter, the Jazz Workshop Quintet, and Buell Neidlinger's Dixieland band. In addition, the Smoker will present the Wellesley Widows and several freshman acts, including the Doozipaars, Freshman Glee Club soloist Frederick Brozer, folk-singers William D. Chapple, Michael C. Kenin, and Richard H. Zaffron, and the mimics...