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...concert also featured Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, that phylanstery of complex chromatic chords. While this piece showed off Allanbrook's technique to advantage, the performance suffered from major intonation problems. The tempi were questionable, but the reading cohered, if quirkily, and the ambition was impressive given the forces available...
...Poet Laureate Mark Strand History: "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (no relation) Biography: "Lindbergh," by A. Scott Berg General Nonfiction: "Annals of the Former World," by John McPhee Music: "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion," by Melinda Wagner...
More panacea for the soul, in high vocal style. Masterworks Chorale Goes to the Opera, with "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Verdi's Nabucco, the "Easter Hymn" from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and "Pilgrim's Chorus" from Wagner's Tannhauser. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets...
Strauss' early masterpiece, finished by the time he was 25, was written under the spell of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...
...Wagner said MIT's notoriously tough first year--so difficult that students are only graded pass/fail--"can easily become overwhelming to people...