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Yale took over from there and on the strength of the running of the backfield trio of Pagliari, Southworth and Hatem, drove deep into Harvard territory before a missed field goal attempt gave Harvard the ball at its own 20 with 46 seconds...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra almost requires two different reviews. The HRO, conducted by James Yannatos, put together a program of Berlioz, Shostakovich, and Brahms on Saturday night with greater fluency and strength than they have exhibited in several years. However, what really packed Sanders Theatre to overflowing proportions was the trio of pianist Richard Kogan, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who performed on what must be described as a musical level comparable to the world's best...
First: the Harvard Trio, as they have billed themselves since they began their extensive appearances throughout the Brahms B major Trio, Op. 8, as a pre-concert prelude. The work was drastically revised by the mature Brahms, and despite its early opus number, its introspective intensity makes it an extraordinarily difficult work to interpret. But Chang, Kogan, and Ma (upon whom the trio now seems to be less visibly dependent for direction whirled through the work with abandon and brilliance. If anything, the second movement scherzo crept to the edge of brittleness; yet the sustained, almost religious adagio which followed...
...members of the trio, Chang and Ma, returned for the second half of the program as soloists in the Brahms Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra. Here again, they infused their playing with intensity and drama; although Chang's lower register sometimes tends toward scratchiness, his tone quality is superb, and the intonation problems evident in his solo appearance with HRO last year have largely disappeared. Ma's electric stage presence and romantic approach, meanwhile, provided an ideal vehicle for the concerto and complemented Chang's hard lustre perfectly; he can do things with a cello, as Harvard audiences...
...meeting was quiet, and the conferees moved with diplomatic caution. Well they might; for according to federal officials, there are only three serious contenders for what Don Carlo left behind, and all have frightening reputations. The unholy trio...