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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday night was the first HRO concert I've gone to in about a year. I was looking forward to hearing the group again, especially with the program they had prepared. But the concert was oddly disappointing. The orchestra is better than it has been in the past, more sure of itself technically, and more capable of dynamic contrast. But there was something missing--a spark of enthusiasm, a sense of excitement...
Luigi Dallapiccola's Dialoghi for 'cello and orchestra (1960) was the most important work on the program; Friday night marked the U.S. (if not the world) premiere of the piece--even conductor Yannatos was not sure which. The strings were further reduced, making way for the wind section and a panoramic display of percussion instruments...
...apartment houses, especially on commercial streets where the ground floor is given over to liquor or grocery stores. But block after block is lined with two and three-family brownstones--housing which was, and in many cases still is, very fine indeed. That's what makes residents and planners sure that rehabilitation programs can work. Enthuses one lawyer who lives in the area, "Man, there are some beautiful homes here...
...omitted, as was Marcellina's). David Cornell's Bartolo was strong but a little clumsy and headstrong. Angus Duncan as Antonio was marvellously and bitterly ironic. He also had one of the most brilliant lines of the translation: describing Cherubino's leap from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish dolefulness...
...telephone rings in the big house at Sagamore Hill. "Is that you, Archie?" pipes a small boy's voice. "No, this is Archie's father," a man answers. "Oh, well, you'll do," says the small boy. "Tell Archie to be sure to come to supper tonight." Grinning, Archie's dad, the 26th President of the U.S., hangs up the receiver. "How the creatures do order one about," he says...