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...STUDENTS: Monday, Aug. 13, The Beaux Arts Trio of New York, Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. Ravel- Haydn - Beethoven program...
...first half of last Monday's concert was a delight; the rest, a puzzle. The Brandeis players produced a more-than-competent performance of Haydn's Trio No. 5, for piano, violin, and cello; and their execution of the other work before the intermission, a Schubert song for voice, piano, and clarinet, was superb. But about Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," which took up the rest of the evening, it is difficult to be so enthusiastic...
...Haydn, Robert Koff's violin and Madeline Foley's cello were both excellent. A shade less successful was Martin Boykan's effort on the piano, which seemed at times to drown out the rest of the trio. Keeping the top of the instrument closed was a step in the right direction, but it tended to make the tone a bit on the muddy side...
...HANDS OF ESAU, by Hiram Haydn (784 pp.; Harper; $7.50). It is the summer of a middle year for Walton Herrick, but it seems to him the winter of his lifetime. His third wife quits him and with her go their children. What a time to be urged to run for Governor! What a time to be caught in the clash of two cliques down at the foundation! Herrick-man of both sensitivity and substance-is in a Nixonian crisis or worse, and it causes his whole life to pass before his eyes. The process requires 784 pages, a great...
...editor of The American Scholar and Atheneum Publishers, Author Haydn, 54, has earned a reputation for scrupulous taste and sympathetic insight. But as an author, he commits gaucheries and piles up prolixities that as an editor he should have blenched at. Perhaps it is because the book is almost embarrassingly autobiographical. And at the end, the reader learns that the book is merely the first part of an unfinished trilogy...