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...conducted by James Yannatos, put together a program of Berlioz, Shostakovich, and Brahms on Saturday night with greater fluency and strength than they have exhibited in several years. However, what really packed Sanders Theatre to overflowing proportions was the trio of pianist Richard Kogan, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who performed on what must be described as a musical level comparable to the world's best...
...entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly out-of-tune upright piano. They also usually omit Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song" ("Once de buzzard fold his wing an' light over yo' house/ All yo' happiness done dead") as well as several chunks of the last scene. All that restored material does make for a three-hour-long evening (Houston, wisely perhaps, has reconsidered and scrapped a few of the restorations), but it is well worth the time...
...Chamber Players, Kirchner culls from 180 the top musicians at Harvard (this year, Lynn Chang, Robert Portney, Richard and Judy Kogan and Yo-Yo Ma), selects another seven or eight young musicians from across the country ("the best students" of "the best teachers"), and then invites four or five pros, mostly Marlboro Music Festival alumni, to join in a series of Monday night chamber concerts throughout the summer...
...Yo-Yo Ma, cello, and Patricia Zander, piano, play their last major recital at Harvard. Admission $2. Sanders Theater...
...Yo Yo Ma '76, cellist in Music 180, yesterday said "there is some question as to how the course is run" and conceded that there are "inevitable personality conflicts" between Zander and Kirchner...