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Paul Rosenbloom does course work for his independent study in grand style: a full performance of two Mozart piano concerti. Conducted by David Evans, the only person at Harvard besides Gerry Moshell with a private string orchestra. DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Chamber music of Debussy: Trio for flute, viola and harp; Schubert; Stravinsky. Free. Friday, November...
...Apple Hill Chamber Players are doing the first of five chamber recitals for Arts Across the River. Their program is two of the great chamber pieces, the Brahms Horn Trio and the Mozart E-flat Piano Quartet as well as the less well known Piston Duo for Viola and Cello...
...Viola Scott, a lanky young black woman who has worked for Chrysler for six years, builds transmissions. Scott has strained her back several times while bending over and hunting for parts...
...recital opened with the Clarinet Trio in E of Mozart K. 498, with Robert Crowley, clarinet, Candace Miller, viola, and Marta Dabezies, piano. There was a slight ensemble problem here in that Miller's frail, smallish viola tone did not always assert itself, and at times was drowned out by the combined forces of the piano and Crowley's full clarinet tone. But what is most important in this piece, and what many experienced performers fail to capture, is the atmosphere, the ambiance, Mozart creates--that rarefied, beatific feeling which is irradiated by the man who Has Seen...
After intermission the recital closed with the big piece on the program--the Piano Quintet in A, op. 81 of Dvorak, with Alan Marks, piano, Robert Portney, first violin, Ronan Lefkowitz, second violin, James Froelich, viola and Mary Ann Elder, cello. It may seem that the performers who choose to play such a bag of musical sweets as this Dvorak Quintet can hardly fail to satisfy, no matter how they play. However, an audience usually senses when the players are "fudging," and does not respond. Here the players admitted nary an iota of fudge to their bag of sweets--just...