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...trim, aristocratic-looking man, Lieberson still walks each morning from his town house on Manhattan's East Side to his office in CBS'S dark gray stone skyscraper (known to employees as the Black Rock); he still finds time for tennis and doodling on an unfinished violin concerto, still entertains such friends as the Leonard Bernsteins, Richard Rodgerses and Dick Cavetts. He frequently gets away with his wife of 27 years, Ballerina Vera Zorina, for long weekends at their second home in Santa...
...concertino of the Corelli "Christmas Concerto" with violinist Robert Coalson and cellist Nestor Cybriwsky. The concerto is not particularly difficulty, but Chang and Coalson played with an enthusiasm and confidence reflected in their music. Unfortunately some very sour notes wafted out from the back rows of the violin section, somewhat spoiling the concerto's beautiful second movement...
HAYDN'S Drumroll Symphony was intended for an 80-piece orchestra, and most modern orchestras play it with even larger ensembles. The Bach Society's half-strength rendition was surprisingly effective, especially in the last movement. Haydn wrote into the piece a part for solo violin which was intended for his friend, the virtuoso Johann Salomon. Lynn Chang assumed Salomon's part, and elicited all of its show-off excitement. The French hornists, though, had a tough evening. Amy Larkey and Susan Grody struggled with a part which demanded entrances with very high notes. The critical attack on the first...
Brahms's Sonata Number One in G. for violin and piano (op. 78) was played by two Kirkland House alumni who have since gone on to musical careers, James Buswell '70, violinist, and Seth Carlin '69, pianist, played a superbly controlled rendition of the emotion-packed Sonata in G. Both tended towards exaggerated body movements, Buswell panting and rising to his toes with crescendos, and Carlin bouncing his hands all over the keyboard, but the visual did not adversely affect the aural. The piece is prone to cloying over-interpretation, but Buswell and Carlin kept their music disciplined and precise...
...Hindemith Sonata for Violin and Piano (Op. 11, no. 4) was the standout of the evening. The sonata is an exciting work, and it is especially difficult because of passages which require extremely exact timing. Seth Carlin returned to the piano to accompany Marcus Thompson, whose Julliard training showed in his solid command of the difficult piece. Many people find Hindemith difficult to listen to (the Nazis expelled him from Germany as "a musical Bolshevik."), but the Sonata for Viola and Piano reflects Hindemith's deep regard for the tonal qualities of the viola, expressing the melodic and emotionally moving...