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...SECOND FACTOR was undoubtedly the presence of violinist and conductor Oscar Shumsky. Shumsky is a prominent faculty member of the Juilliard School and an honorary director of the Violin Society of America. Yet he is not well known outside musical circles or beyond the New York area. He should be. He is a superb violinist and a superb music coach, as the concert revealed. Shumsky has a clear sense of professionalism, and evidently instilled the same sense in HRO, which became an unusually responsive body under his direction. He employs an instructive rather than brilliant technique; he knows exactly what...
...first half of the program closed with another graduate student composition, Alan MacMillan's 1972 Trio for violin, cello and piano. Probably the most conservative work on the program, the work features singing cello lines with delicate filigreed accompaniment from piano and violin. The trio's interpretation, which apparently left the composer, sitting in the audience, pleased but a little surprised, varied between reassured introspection and a nervous restlessness. Cellist Greg Colburn was particularly sensitive to dynamic shadings and tone coloration; however, it seemed as if the piano itself, a Bosendorfer, had a particularly warm sound that failed to mesh...
...Celebrity Series. Henryk Szeryng on the violin at 3 p.m. at Symphony Hall in Boston. Information...
Museum of Fine Arts Early Music Series. Chamber music of the 17th century for strings and keyboard at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Daniel Stepner, violin; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Laura Jeppeson, viola da gamba. Student tickets...
Borowczyk, also the screenwriter, does not stop Ewa's fall here. Within the next 45 minutes, and to the triumphant strains of Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Ewa stuffs her illegitimate child down an outhouse hole, pull a love-sick count by the nose all the way to Paris, and finally succumbs to a shifty-looking criminal who uses her charms to defraud the hapless count. "Isn't this going too far? we begin to wonder...