Word: petrushka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serge Diaghilev, then director of the world-famous Ballets Russes, invited Stravinsky to compose works for his company's upcoming season at the Paris Opera. The Firebird, the first to appear, was a sensation. Petrushka and The Rite of Spring quickly followed. Soon Stravinsky's audaciously innovative works confirmed his status as the leading composer of the day, a position he hardly relinquished until his death nearly 60 years later...
...with the piece, which the composer wrote as a senior project at the age of 18 (and you think you work too hard on your thesis). Or maybe the orchestra is just more comfortable in the twentieth century; in one concert last year, it seemed to do better in Petrushka than in a simpler piece by Wagner...
...night and it wasn't just because of the paternal and maternal affection that radiated from the three-quarters-full auditorium. The orchestra earned its ovations, moving through three very dissimilar pieces with grace and energy; the sheer scale of the undertaking, especially in a work as complex as "Petrushka," was impressive...
...orchestra's ability was most in evidence in "Petrushka," a complex work which incorporates Russian folk tunes and avant-garde rhythmic experimentation. Just the number of instruments involved was impressive: everything from piano, harp and celeste to xylophone, snare drum and triangle found a place on the crowded stage. It makes one wonder what HRO would do if the admissions committee ever forgot to admit a harpist...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. 266-1200. Performs Stravinsky's "Petrushka" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Erotica" on March 17 at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.; March 18 at 1:30 p.m. and March...