Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program began with Mozart's Haffner Symphony. In previous concerts the HRO has played Mozart without adequate discipline, but Friday night they displayed complete mastery. The violins were unexpectedly precise, despite difficult sections of trills and runs. The orchestra did not sacrifice emotional force for precision, however, and the trio of the third movement was interpreted almost romantically. The controlled performance of the finale added to its excitement...
...Here Nichols is concerned with an odd trio. Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin are creatures of the absurd, weeping cocktail tears of self-pity while the audience has all the laughs...
This nihilistic trio proceeds to torment and destroy Sigfrid's guest-for-the-night, a gentle deviate dressed in a dress. Of course, the playwright is not going to let this poor fellow immolate himself on the fence without giving the audience his maudlin credo: "Shakespeare, Florence [the city in Italy], someone in the park. That's what I believe in." Alert the park department...
There were some superb performances by the solo flute and obe. Their ensemble work with the solo clarinet in the trio of Gustav Holst's Hammersmith Prelude and Scherze was perhaps the most musically sensitive part of the concert...
...Here Nichols is concerned with a weird trio. Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin are creatures of the absurd, weeping cocktail tears of self-pity while the audience has all the laughs...