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...Sandor Shapiro and David Lewin had chosen a more interesting program Sunday night, their concert would have been a complete success. Shapiro, a Dunster House sophomore, is a better than average violinist with a vibrant tone and clear intonation. Pianist Lewin, a sophomore from Lowell House, plays with delicate simplicity. Their collaboration was remarkably well-balanced, both sonorously and rhythmically...
...Brahms G Major is really significant. This lyrical masterpiece, particularly in the first and last movements, has the same pastoral mood as the Second Symphony, written at about the same time. Lewin, with a light touch and skillful pedaling, produced a velvety Cascades-like tone that blended perfectly with Shapiro's suave violin timbre...
...even the zestful playing of Lewin and Shapiro could rescue Beethoven's Sonata No.2 from its inherent dullness. Musicologist Paul Schauffler has called this an "optimistic" sonata, but to me it seems a very unpromising precursor of works like the Spring and Krentzer Sonatas. In theme and harmony it sounds, at its best, like bad Mozart...
Lewin and Shapiro have both shown that they are proficient musicians. But not until they become equally adept at selecting programs will they be able to make important contributions to Harvard's musical scene...
...Committee which compiled the report, headed by Howard A. Shapiro '53, reported that "despite a certain amount of apathy on the part of some advisers and probably of advisees, too, (judging by the advisers' reports in October) the program has been successful to a fair degree. It has not been as valuable as might have been hoped. To the extent that the program has been helpful in some ways to most and has been extremely valuable to many it seems worth continuing...