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...program of Beethoven warhorses will feature the familiar/familial Harvard trio of Richard Kogan '77, piano; Lynn Chang, 75, violin; and Yo-Yo Ma '76, cello, on Friday night in Sanders. This weekend may be an endurance test for Ma who will perform three times in four days. Not that he sours with fatigue, but chances are that you will catch him at his freshest on Friday evening...
That night, I was treated to a stunning performance by the soon-to-be-definitive Yo-Yo Ma. I found myself engulfed by his confidence, capabilities and professionalism. His handling of Shostakovich's composition was stupendous, to say the least, and I left the concert feeling completely invigorated. For that, I shall ask you to extend to him my congratulations and thanks. It appeared at the time that Yo-Yo Ma's performance was doubly impressive, first for this excellent solo and, second, because of his abilities in rising above the handicap of Mr. Neal Stulberg...
...Bach Society Orchestra met that test in its first concert of the season giving Yo-Yo Ma '76 the backing he deserved during a performance of the first cello concerto by Shostakovich. Under the baton of Neal Stulberg '76, this year's conductor, the potentially fragmented composition jelled into a continuous musical statement. The orchestra nimbly bridged the dangerous gaps between the cello passages and those sections played by the group; instead of pouncing on its entrances and destroying the soft, quiet effect produced by Ma in the second movement, the orchestra picked up where he left...
...real Opry has moved out of town to a Disney-like complex on the freeway. It was inaugurated, you may recall, by President Nixon a few years back. If memory serves, this was the event at which the Trick failed to negotiate properly a yo-yo he had been given by the citizenry. Anyway, things have pretty much moved out of the city except for the business district--tall buildings where everything is sheathed in structural steel. Even with all the civic pride that obviously went into these structures and the malls around them, they are a little...
Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3, Stravinsky, Puicinella Suite, Astrous, a new work by John Thow, and Beethoven's Triple Concerto; Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conductor, Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang, violin, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Sanders...