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...orchestra into the national standard-bearer both he and Wilker envision. The Kennedy Center concert hall's acoustics are extremely poor, and the orchestra's playing is not much better. The most recent program that Slatkin conducted underscored both problems. A joyless, hurried reading of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto featured the prodigy violinist Sarah Chang, 16, who cluelessly bowled her way through the war-horse, leaving Slatkin and the orchestra to catch up as best they could. The Brahms Fourth Symphony was better, benefiting from the sturdy, muscular interpretation that the new maestro favors, but it still lacked the refinement...
Hahn studied at the Julliard pre-college program beginning in fifth grade, but she says she has not had the opportunity to play the violin at Harvard...
...left my violin at home, and my dance partners are either in Israel or doing research," Goh says. "So I have nothing to do but my thesis 'til next Friday...
Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano...
...first lilting phrases of the Allegro of the Spring movement, all present were filled with langorous longing for the delights of May. The high-pitched flute authentically evoked the ebullient song of the birds and the rushing whistle of a brook, despite the initial overpowering of the second violins. During the more "violinistic" spots where the warmth of the intended solo violin would have more richly depicted the sleepy scenes of shepherds napping and dogs baying, Ms. Robison courageously puffed away and made the leap of faith that her modern flute could pull it off as well. And pull...