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...want to show that there's interest [in such a program]. We feel that Harvard, being such a major university, can really have an impact on this field," Grossman said...
...Sunday, March 1, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra bestowed the rare gift of an encore performance upon its audience. Brought to the NEC in the midst of the 1997-98 BankBoston Celebrity Series, the orchestra, with conductor Joseph Silverstein and piano soloist Derek Han, already possessed a well-packaged program of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann--one could not have asked for a more fitting embellishment than a bit of Beethoven...
Following a 20 minute intermission, the orchestra plunged directly into what would have been the final piece of its program, Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, "Spring." Here the layering of textures is much deeper than in Brahms' work, with a fanfare from the trumpets heralding the arrival of a multitude of entrances from all sections of the orchestra. Mimicking the bustle of springtime with trilling ornamentation and a robust tone, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra lost none of the momentum it received with Derek Han's performance; even the more placid Larghetto was imbued with the anticipation...
...mezzanine. Silverstein did return a fourth time, though, and with the same vigor he exhibited almost two hours earlier at the concert's commencement, led his group into an encore performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture. The overture acted as the perfect capstone to an already well-rounded program, its melody passed from woodwinds to strings, undulating through major and minor keys while the timpani underscored the excitement in the audience. This time there were rounds of bravos from the listeners for the orchestra and its beaming conductor, who repeatedly mouthed "thank you" to the appreciative crowd of concert-goers...
Riley then proceeded to sketch out President Clinton's second-term program for bringing national education into the Twenty-first Century...