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...Merie Noire and Quartet For The End Of Time by Olivier Messaien; Marilyn Chohaney, flute, Lynn Chang, violin, David Kass, clarinet, Craig Hogan, cello, and Hugh Wolff, piano; Kirkland JCR; 8:30; free...
After the intermission, the orchestra surprised the audience with its vigorous performance of the Eighth Symphony. Hugh Wolff once again proved to be a conscientious conductor, sensibly placing music before histrionics. The orchestra was well-disciplined and seemed well-rehearsed. But one could not forget that the Bach Society is, after all, a student organization. While the forte tutti sections were played with gusto, the subtleties of phrasing, slight accentuations, and nuances in dynamics were never quite made apparent, for fear of sacrificing precision and ensemble. This was also a problem in the pianissimo sections and during some...
Take your pick--choral, orchestral, recital or ensemble concerts this weekend? Keep these in mind: the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum concert in its first performance of the year; the Bach Society concert featuring mezzo-soprano Mary Frances Lubahn, the lead in last spring's Ariadne, and Hugh Wolff playing Beethoven's 3rd; and Yo-Yo Ma's cello recitals at Kirkland and Adams Houses...
Directed by ANTHONY HARVEY Screenplay by RUTH WOLFF...
...capture Garbo's regal mystery. Ullmann instead goes after Christina's hobbled psyche and knotted libido. The script, however, does not necessarily move in the same direction as the leading actress. Indeed, it gives her very little to go on at all. Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina's father, the King, takes her for a ride one day when he reviews the troops, and dies soon afterward. Director Anthony Harvey has chosen to render this event symbolically, by having...