Word: overtureã
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...been through a war. So he’d been on TV a couple times. So his dick was a foot long. God almighty! I’m surrounded by a pack of rabid dogs!” But what makes the novel so exciting in hindsight is its overture??the first and perhaps the only significant one—to “2666.” That overture is its brush with the stuff of the latter’s dark invisible center: namely, terror. Bolaño’s vision of a small Spanish...
Lowell House’s newly molded Russian bells rang in their inaugural performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture??a piece that explicitly called for Russian bells—on Sunday. The Danilov bells—which preceded the current set—were donated to Harvard by an American industrialist Charles R. Crane in 1930. They narrowly escaped the fate of most other Russian bells that were, at the time, being destroyed by Stalin’s regime. They were returned in 2008 to their original home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, after many years...
...unbalanced opening, the swashbuckling theme was well articulated by the brass section for a clean end. Like his “Lohengrin,” Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” is also a story about love. The muted sound of the overture??s opening in the clarinet melody evoked a prayer-like feeling. However, the performance failed to build on this. At times, Sakir was able to lift the brass line above the lush strokes of two-note slurs in the strings for a regal effect. But the musical lines frequently...
...times, the HRO’s performance of the “Overture?? seemed a bit too restrained. The piece was technically sound, but the performers could have had more fun with the jazzy intricacies of the music. It ultimately left the listener yearning for Harbison’s lively rhythms to fill the whole theatre...
...their orchestras could truly be attributed to the genius of the conductor, as opposed to the virtuosity and natural musicality of the players as an ensemble,” says Kapusta, who, besides leading occasional rehearsals, will also be conducting Brahms’ “Tragic Overture?? in March. “I’m thankful to say that the players of HRO take a lot of pressure off of my job,” “It’s really unique because even though there are music majors, I would say the majority...