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...Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory (NEC) on Sunday, March 1, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra bestowed the rare gift of an encore performance upon its audience. Brought to the NEC in the midst of the 1997-98 BankBoston Celebrity Series, the orchestra, with conductor Joseph Silverstein and piano soloist Derek Han, already possessed a well-packaged program of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann--one could not have asked for a more fitting embellishment than a bit of Beethoven...
Whoever said that strength comes with numbers would have been completely wrong about the Bach Society Orchestra (BSO). Although small in number, Bach Soc proved to be a valiant orchestra with its rich tones reverberating throughout Paine Hall last Saturday. Along with guest soloist Jonathan Russell '00, the chamber orchestra treated the audience to a delightful performance...
Eric Tipler '99, conductor of the BSO, communicated with the orchestra and Russell so skillfully that not only was Russell presented as a guest soloist, but during the interludes, the Bach Soc seemed a soloist by itself. Ever so delicately, Russell and the orchestra started the Adagio, the orchestra gently backing up Russell's beautifully fragile tone. A soul's love song, the Adagio, became Russell's song, putting heartfelt emotion into each note as he rocked gently back and forth to the music. What was most beautiful about this movement was the way in which Russell sustained the upper...
...Tanglewood Festival Chorus and P.A.L.S. who marched in during intermission sang during the fifth movement, accompanying the soloist, American mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar. Seventy-five choir members, highly visible young ladies and younger boys and girls dressed in whit and blue framed the orchestra. The fifth movement started with P.A.L.S. singing "ding, dong, ding, dong." The Tanglewood chorus answered with wide smiles and German verse. One couldn't tell if their smiles were the stages smiles that performers have to wear or genuine glee at hearing the younger kids perform. They hadn't looked too lively on their...
...solo performance in "Tempted," Callbacks stage manager and member Michael F. Rizzo '99 was judged Best Soloist. "It felt great...but I never could have won it if the group behind me hadn't been singing their part," Rizzo said...