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The concert also marked Michael Senturia's last regular concert in Sanders Theatre as director of the HRO. It was a brilliant farewell. While Kogan faced the orchestra feet together, like a conductor, Senturia spread his feet, hunched his shoulders, and went at Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony like a boxer...
More than that, she managed to transform songs about Negroes into songs about the human condition. "No Room at the Hotel," for example, looked at first to be the archtypical protest chant, but ordinary Freedom Riders fare would dissolve under comparison. In one of her most exciting solos, "I'm...
In limited doses, Loussier-Bach is fascinating. Each number contains a few snatches of unadulterated Bach, and Loussier uses those snatches as an excuse for wheeling off into sweet, cajoling solos or bouncing into a marching, brutish beat.
Far more enjoyable was the Beethoven C minor quartet, Op. 18. Although among Beethoven's first batch of string quartets, this quartet shows the vigor, delightful humor, and insistence on making the instruments serve the music that characterizes Beethoven's later quartet writing. The liveliness of the work seemed to...
Now that comment on Ornette Coleman seemed to have abated, we can put him in some sort of perspective. The premium he has placed on freedom has led him to produce some extremely frantic, incoherent solos, which may or may not move you. They seem to be as far from...