Word: concertmistress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presented to her on her eighth birthday in 1952. In the pre-concert lecture, Harvard professor John Stewart illuminated, a la First Nights, the history of Dallapiccola's career and discussed points of interest like the Simbolo, a four-note theme derived from the letters in "Bach." As concertmistress Stephanie Misono turned the pages of his score, Hodgkinson breezed through the simplistic Simbolo and the succeeding variations, all the while displaying the technical precision that helped him win the International Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation in 1981. Even more impressive was the lyricism integrated into...
...orchestration is incredibly rich. As the performance went, there may have been a textual imbalance on the side of too much brass, but Susan Gim '01 played her flute part superbly, and there were plenty of opportunities for the strings to generate a beautiful sound. The solo by Concertmistress Jen Burney '99 was one of the best parts of the first movement and, incidentally, authored the most entertaining program note: "young Antonin's musical talent was discovered early during his apprenticeship as a butcher." Was this a rhythmic knock-the-ham-hock knack? Or did Dvorak's vegan soul have...