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Strauss' early masterpiece, finished by the time he was 25, was written under the spell of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...
This concerto existed in a rougher, more Beethovenian perform before the Finnish composer excised some blocky, thorny passages from the first movement. There is still plenty of muscular music in the 1905 version we hear tonight, which makes greater demands on the soloist in terms of smoothness and tone. In rehearsal only the first two movements were heard, apparently because of Yannatos' temper, but two were enough to show Castelli at the top of her game. Awesome voicing, awesome dynamic range, and some Heifitzian melodrama suggest a Sibelius not to be missed. For those inclined to adduce parallels, note...
...orderly world of Sheila McGough, every new face is another version of this policeman, another link in the vast conspiracy that held her prisoner in a cage of lies inside this country's system of justice. Some call it schizoid;, she just calls it getting by, since her career as a singularly dedicated lawyer was effectively ended by her conviction for colluding with a con-artist client to subvert her profession and violate the law. She spent years in prison after refusing to testify against this con man and only began to speak of the gross injustice Because this peculiar...
...punkster kids screamed, the swingers and students shuffled, and the geriatrics in the back tapped their feet. But everybody danced-awkwardly at first, heartily in the high-powered middle, frantically at the passionate encore. When the chaos was over, the sisters performed a silky version of the Hank William Sr.'s classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." With the departure of the Nields from the stage, the tie holding the crowd together loosened, and the audience separated again into their different categories...
This past weekend, I escaped from Harvard. Under the guise of a "job interview" I spent several days in California before I was captured, tortured and placed in Loker Commons for re-education. What follows is my abridged version of events...