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...highlight of the concert, and presumably its biggest draw, will be HRO Concerto Competition winner Christina Castelli '00, who has to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto for herds of "Junior Parents," including...
...ready to perform for you!" declared the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) as it started off with J. S. Bach's Overture to the Orchestral Suite in D Major. With dignified energy, MSO grabbed the audience's attention from the very beginning. Lehmann himself performed a solo, Violin Concerto in G by Haydn, with the orchestra accompanying. As the strings echoed and flourished the soloist's line, it was evident that MSO not only had energy but also a thorough command over style and technique. The highlight of the evening came at the end with Ottorino Respighi's The Birds...
Boston Symphony Orchestra's James Ehnes on violin: Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and Stravinsky's "Suite from Pulcinella." 301 Mass. Ave. Call SymphonyCharge at (888) 266-1200 for tickets...
...surface, substance and gesture. There's scarcely a hint of theatricality in the way his Delft models look. The figures in A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, circa 1658, are circumspect and static. True, the man on the left seems to be mimicking a violin player with two clay pipes, but it would be hard to imagine a more decorous drinking party, and the glass of wine the woman raises is more like a chalice than an attribute of Bacchus, let alone Venus. Their presence is vivid, but it's subordinated to the even stronger formal...
...challenge of Beethoven's Concerto occurs in the first movement, where the notes span almost the entire range of the violin, rising to a D two octaves above the staff. As stated by the program, "This sort of exposed writing in the upper register is more indicative than anything else of what the solo part in this concerto is about." As the pitches began to stretch the bound of Human aural tolerability, one was truly thankful that it was in the hands of such an accomplished violinist. Mutter handled these delicate passages with grace and finesse, never allowing emotion...