Word: violins
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...first half of the program closed with another graduate student composition, Alan MacMillan's 1972 Trio for violin, cello and piano. Probably the most conservative work on the program, the work features singing cello lines with delicate filigreed accompaniment from piano and violin. The trio's interpretation, which apparently left the composer, sitting in the audience, pleased but a little surprised, varied between reassured introspection and a nervous restlessness. Cellist Greg Colburn was particularly sensitive to dynamic shadings and tone coloration; however, it seemed as if the piano itself, a Bosendorfer, had a particularly warm sound that failed to mesh...
...Celebrity Series. Henryk Szeryng on the violin at 3 p.m. at Symphony Hall in Boston. Information...
Museum of Fine Arts Early Music Series. Chamber music of the 17th century for strings and keyboard at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Daniel Stepner, violin; John Gibbons, harpsichord; and Laura Jeppeson, viola da gamba. Student tickets...
Borowczyk, also the screenwriter, does not stop Ewa's fall here. Within the next 45 minutes, and to the triumphant strains of Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Ewa stuffs her illegitimate child down an outhouse hole, pull a love-sick count by the nose all the way to Paris, and finally succumbs to a shifty-looking criminal who uses her charms to defraud the hapless count. "Isn't this going too far? we begin to wonder...
...members of the trio, Chang and Ma, returned for the second half of the program as soloists in the Brahms Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra. Here again, they infused their playing with intensity and drama; although Chang's lower register sometimes tends toward scratchiness, his tone quality is superb, and the intonation problems evident in his solo appearance with HRO last year have largely disappeared. Ma's electric stage presence and romantic approach, meanwhile, provided an ideal vehicle for the concerto and complemented Chang's hard lustre perfectly; he can do things with a cello, as Harvard audiences...