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Dunster House Music Society. Soprano Ellen Archer, violinist Dan Banner, cellist Olsen Young and pianist Michael Strauss will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn and Britten. Dunster House Music Library, 5:30 p.m. Free...
...COMPOSERS TO EMERGE FROM the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most significant is ALFRED SCHNITTKE. Long a word-of-mouth favorite of emigre artists like violinist Gidon Kremer, Schnittke, 58, has a firm grasp of structure, a masterly hand with orchestration and, most important, a distinctive, expressive voice. A new London/Decca recording of Schnittke's Concerti Grossi Nos. 3 and 4 displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished...
...texture and timbre of the piece are complex, exuberant and expressive. The clarinetist and flutist alternate between different clarinets and flutes, two percussionists play a wide range of instruments and the violinist and cellist play at times with their bows upside down. Wild, chaotic sections contrast with tame sections. The piece ends with a fitting explosion of sound which fades into silence...
Berklee School of Music. Performance by violinist Tomoko Iwamoto and her string quartet. Thursday, Oct. 22, 8:15 p.m. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave., Boston. $4; $1 for seniors. Call 266-1400 for more information...
Campus all-star violinist. Signed record contract and plays concerts in Harvard's Sanders Theater and Washington's Kennedy Center. We have yet to see one of his shows but hear they're very nice...