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...Served as concertmaster/mistress for your state’s youth orchestra, put some swing in your Saturday night with Classics and Swing: Music of American Composers (Lowell Lecture Hall, 8 p.m., free for prefrosh). Or try to get student rush tickets to the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra??s performance tonight (Jordan Hall in Boston, 6:45 p.m. for pre-concert talk, $8 with high school/college ID). Click here for more info...
...thick orchestration delicately, using it to always support a clear, prominent melodic line. Julia L. Glenn ’11 finished the movement with a soaring violin solo. After the light third movement, the fourth movement was a gathering storm that led to a supreme finale. The orchestra??s sound in the famous theme in the middle of the movement was as beautiful as the HRO has achieved this season.The “great Yannatos era,” as Lee put it in his remarks, is over, but Harvard and HRO alumni will feel Yannatos?...
...conductor James Levine, now in his fifth season as music director, the BSO performed the last of its three-program survey of Mozart symphonies with his final, best known works.The opening piece—Mozart’s Symphony No. 39—suffered from slight problems with the orchestra??s ensemble. Shaky starts, mismatched lines, and rough endings of phrases were minor, but noticeable in the first two movements of the E-flat major symphony. Despite the few early stumbles in the performance, the BSO did not fail to deliver on charm and grace, particularly...
...promotional poster in Symphony Hall that billed Harrell as the highlight of the program with large print and a photograph. Rozhdestvensky’s name appeared in smaller print on the announcement and was not featured in the “Distinguished Conductors” section of the orchestra??s season brochure...
...Harrell coaxed a fluid stream of airy sound from his cello, creating an ethereal effect that was complemented by the orchestra??s ability to carry the melodic themes through the sections between solo entrances. His never-ending lines brought the Romantic work together with an aching melancholy, echoed in the ringing pizzicato of the heart-wrenching harmonies...