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JAZZ: The Third Dog Quintet; Berklee Performance Center; Thursday...
CLASSICAL: Empire Brass Quintet; performance class; B.U. School of Music, Rm. 154; Tuesday...
Franz Liszt Birthday Bash--Jane Struss, mezzo-soprano, David Witten and Hung-Kuan Chen, plano, and the New England Woodwind Quintet; music of Chopin, Liszt and Beethoven; New School of Music, 25 Lowell...
...Kennedy Center prize. Earlier this month in Santa Fe, two new Harbison works got their first performances. Mottetti di Montale is a darkly elegiac, 50-minute song cycle based on po ems by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Piano Quintet is a spare and acerbic five-movement work commissioned by the festival and dedicated to Artist Georgia O'Keeffe...
...Piano Quintet, for piano and string quartet, is leaner, harsher and, finally, less successful. It has a distinctively "American" sound derived from Charles Ives, opening with a questioning overture of bold, disjunct octaves. The composer then weakens his argument with | three short character pieces | that, while agreeable, do nothing to further the work's emotional progress. The finale, however, is a heartfelt Elegia that ends with a haunting repeated fragment in the piano, dissolving in resignation and despair...