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The orchestra seemed stylistically most comfortable in the Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The string playing was warmer in tone and well controlled (especially the violins in the second song), as were most of the various wind solos which punctuate the work. Contralto Jane Struss was disappointing: she brought out...
Paul Butterfield came back for the encore, an instrumental, and the whole evening jelled into something consistent. He and B.B. played fills, solos, chords, traded licks.
The most interesting aspect of Yes's music is its ability to create a high degree of excitement in a tightly structured format. Eschewing the standard rock pattern of vocal alternating with instrumental solos, the group's music proceeds on a logic of its own. Always tightly constructed, but never...
ALL THE singers were superbly backed by John Miner's orchestra. The overture was done with a speed and precision that puts to shame the student orchestras in the vicinity, which this definitely was not. The violin section was outstanding, playing presto sixteenth-note runs with a remarkable unity. The...
Perhaps the best songs presented during the show were Hunt's Fly on the Wall and Davis's Grandfather's Gifts. The former is a long piece with an extended instrumental portion in which all four members perform solos, the most memorable being Lipton's cello which musically colors the...