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...well-known local soloists, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Smith Glee Club, and F. John's own talented Harvard Glee Club. A Mozart chamber work will also be on that program--the sublimely beautiful clarinet quintet, played by a group which includes David Kass and HRO competition winner Lynn Chang. Good Mozart performances are rare, so this concert should be a rare pleasure...
Mozart's Grand Mass in C-minor; Mary Sindonl, soprano, Beverly Morgan, mezzo-soprano, Frank Hoffmeister, tenor, David Evitts, bass, Harvard Glee Club, Smith Glee Club, HRO, F. John Adams, conductor; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet; David Kass, clarinet, Lynn Chang, violin, Kypros Markou, violin, William Eilberg, viola, and Craig Hogan, cello; Sanders Theater...
Last Friday at Kirkland House, four fine musicians gave an intense and memorable performance of this quartet, revealing its masterful qualities through the vividness of their playing. The music makes extreme emotional and technical demands, but clarinetist David Kass, pianist Hugh Wolff, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Craig Hogan rose impressively to the challenge...
...pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best in these sections that would have frazzled the nerves and ears of lesser musicians...
...Chang as chosen by a panel of judges including the orchestra's conductors and local musical educators...