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...room more than twice a week. Pianist Brian Cooke, who leads the band, had put together a disappointingly limited program, made up almost exclusively of arrangements by Quincy Jones and Boston's own Herb Pomeroy: not that there's anything wrong with Jones and Pomeroy, but the "quiet cook" tempo they both favor quickly grows wearing, and the band's ensemble work on such tunes as Aluminum Baby and Quince was ragged and lugubrious (though the reeds were quite smooth). Moreover, the brass insisted on substituting bastard-Armstrong vibrato for clean attack, and the solos were badly phrased and unimaginative...
Swoboda made up for the rather overwhelming Giannini with a clear, clean interpretation of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Swoboda took the opening Allegro moderato at a leisurely, though defensible, tempo, modifying it as the music demanded. Michael Brenner, clarinet, and Barbara Cohen, oboe, reflected musical thoughtfulness and care in their solos opening and ending the second movement...
Reaching for Spirits. Keeping an iron grip on tempo and rhythm, Klemperer forged a reading so scrupulously attentive to the score that it amounted almost to an analysis of Beethoven's thought. When the old man hobbled from the stage with the help of his heavy cane, the audience had heard Beethoven illuminated as by no other living conductor...
...symphony. Layton followed what seems to be the current musical fashion and took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed it rather dead. But the rest of the symphony lived. The second movement, taken at a good deliberate tempo, enjoyed the outstanding solo performance of Tison Street, concertmaster, as violin concertanto. Here, and in the fourth movement, Street gave truly professional performances: accurate, sure, and evocative of all the subtleties in the music. Marshall Brown, first cellist of the orchestra, played the violoncello concertanto. As they had all evening...
...independent ensembles. One, the muted strings, provides a constant background, labelled "the eternal silence of the Druids." The other, a few woodwinds, attempts to answer the question proposed by a solo trumpet. The woodwinds are only cued in by the conductor, but they play at a tempo independent of his; they must rely on each other for co-ordination. Preserving the sense of tentativeness, of irresolution, Layton took care to bring out the fine details of interpretation and gave these pieces as close to a perfect performance as one could hope...