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...latest of a string of architectural accolades, the law school's newest office and classroom building was named "the most beautiful building" in the Boston area, winning the 1994 Harleston Medal from the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) and the City of Boston...
When cellist Yeesun Kim entered with the quartet's second motive, she introduced the audience to a mode of playing that can only be called chamber music perfection. Kim's bow moved so immaculately that one could not tell if it actually touched the string; from the listener's perspective, there was only a pristine sound that came from her direction. Moreover, Kim's ironclad intonation placed her in a class of her own. Her sound suits the medium perfectly--not overly soloistic, yet unquestionably striking. She is surely the most outstanding cellist in chamber music today...
...Quartet next presented "The Drinking Gourd," the final movement of Marty Ehrlich's String Quartet (1993). According to Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...
...BEGINS WITH A ship's bell clanging peacefully in the night. Suddenly there is the shuddering impact of steel meeting solid, razor-sharp ice. Then the music emerges as if from a watery grave, half heard and half perceived, a stately, contemplative hymn solemnly intoned by a string sextet. A brass choir picks up fragments of the tune, while a boys' chorus adds a heavenly descant of Kyrie Eleison. From time to time, scraps of sound emerge from the wreckage-buckling bulkheads, rushing water, disembodied voices of the survivors, alarm horns honking futilely across the cold North Atlantic...
DIED. ED FLANDERS, 60, actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Denny, California. Flanders' career included a string of Emmy-winning roles, notably that of Dr. Donald Westphall, the sane, soulful center of the surreally frantic St. Eligius Hospital in the 1980s TV series St. Elsewhere...