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April 2 marked the performance of what just could be the new soundtrack for The Phantom Menace. Not exclusively modern, the program did include Brahms' "Piano Quarter in minor, Opus 25" along with Bohuslav Martin's more contemporary "Memorial to Lidice" and Bela Bartok's "Violin Concerto No. 2." Even this was tainted by the great Modernist Arnold Schoenber who re-arranged the chamber piece for orchestra. According to the program notes, "Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg are [not-so] strange bedfellows" in a filigree of 20th century musical fracas that indeed would have made Obi-Wan proud...
...remaining pieces were also excellently executed. Perhaps the most famous of all child prodigies, Midori, like many one name phenoms (Madonna, Cher, etc.) has a style that is hardly replicable by any other. Playing what was once considered the Bartok Violin Concerto (before the discovery of the First Violin Concerto), one was led to a feeling of extreme awe. Awe at the masterful execution by this petite Japanese virtuoso, awe at her apparent humility, and just plain heart-thumping, jaw-dropping...
...Eliot Chamber Orchestra gave the forth annual Rainforest Concert, to Benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The small crowd was not disappointed, as the virtuosity of the two featured soloists (Joe Lin '00 and Yuki Sekino '99) proved to be irreproachable. Lin gave the fifth Mozart Violin Concerto and, due to the inferior quality of the ensemble, was forced to take everything down a notch. Tempi lagged but, on the other hand, the winds were wonderful in the andante. John Allanbrook '99, a musical jack-of-all trades, elicited a deliberate, score--fixated performance from his musicians-perhaps not so surprising...
...Eliot Chamber Orchestra gave the fourth annual Rainforest Concert, to benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The small crowd was not disappointed, as the virtuosity of the two featured soloists (Joe Lin '00 and Yuki Sekino '99) proved to be irreproachable. Lin gave the fifth Mozart Violin Concerto and, due to the inferior quality of the ensemble, was forced to take everything down a notch. Tempi lagged but, on the other hand, the winds were wonderful in the andante. John Allanbrook '99, a musical jack-of-all-trades, elicited a deliberate, score--fixated performance from his musicians-perhaps not so surprising...
...YEHUDI MENUHIN, 82, icon of 20th century music and world-renowned humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included establishing...