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Kirkland House continues its active musical season by presenting Robert Portney, one of the most gifted violinists ever to study at Harvard. His program has a number of spectaculars that should be attractive to those who are often scared off by solo violin recital repertoire...
SYMPHONY HALL. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ozawa conducting Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 and Berlloz: Symphonie fantastique. Tickets...
...father, a West Indian immigrant, earned part of his living as a busker outside London's music halls and pubs. Her mother, disowned by her parents for marrying a West Indian, saw to it that Cleo and her two brothers "were swamped in lessons"-dancing, piano and violin...
...String Quartet No. 3, Carter goes one step further. In the world premiere last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet paired off into duos and engaged in a 20-minute adventure in the attraction of opposites. While Duo II (violin and viola) was playing six movements in the strictest of tempos, Duo I (violin and cello) was playing four movements in a very free rubato style. Happily, the two duos not only began but end ed together, proving that being at sixes and fours is not at all like being at sixes and sevens...
...scope of the repertoire is absolutely breath-taking. There are banjos and guitars sounding like railroad engines, a violin vibrating with an aching loneliness, and some of the happiest of this country's most characteristically American music. Almost miraculously the set avoids the hokier you'll-always-be-my-treasure doggerel and demonstrates the immense vitality and still-refreshing simplicity of songs far older than this generation...