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...after a less-than-successful solo career. Fairport Convention still remains a respectable outfit though their current work in no way compares to what they produced in the past. In addition to Fairport, you'll also get a chance to witness one of the more atypical figures in rock, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Though his popular following is quite large in Europe, Ponty remains a critic's musician here, though he is played extensively with Frank Zappa and is close to becoming a full-fledged Mother...
Reardon described what some of the ratings mean: "A 'one' means you're really super. Bob Portney is a one violinist; a 'two' and you're a student body president or a newspaper editor; a 'three' means you're pretty involved, a 'four' means you go home in the afternoon and watch T.V., a 'five' or a 'six' and you never move...
Special featured soloist this Saturday night will be Harvard's whiz violinist Lynn Chang, performing Mendelssohn's well-known violin concerto...
...formidable triple threat by appearing as the pianist in his own Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities in a lean, rhythmically taut performance that conveyed a sense of urgent, breathless energy...
...Guest violinist Donald Weilerstein of the Cleveland String Quartet is back making a guest appearance with the group again this summer, and will perform in Schumann's rarely heard piano quartet. Also light works of Weber Leon Kirsohner, music professor at Harvard and director of the Chamber players...