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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] Alfred Nash Patterson took turns rehearsing every available choral voice, including all the composers’, for the eventual performance, and so it was that I sang as an anonymous chorister under Munch’s direction, just that one time. Munch took no part in running the BMC, which was overseen that summer by Aaron Copland, Ralph Berkowitz, and a few others. Weekly concerts by the BMC Orchestra were mostly directed by the “actives” and by de Carvalho and Seymour Lipkin; but on one occasion, Charles Munch came to conduct Fauré’s Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, which at that time was still not often heard in America. The flute solo in the third movement, the Sicilienne, was played by my classmate Neal Zaslaw, who is now professor emeritus at Cornell and general editor of the latest edition (2023) of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works; Munch gestured to Neal for a well-deserved bow afterward. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-13 18:00:42
Takács Quartet Debuts Flow
The renowned Takács Quartet has a zest for new music and unconventional partnerships. They’ve collaborated with bandoneon standout Julien Labro, composer and The National vocalist Bryce Dessner, vocalist Clarice Assad, and actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. For its February 16th Celebrity Series concert at Jordan Hall [tickets HERE], the foursome offers Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Flow sandwiched between Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet and the second of Beethoven’s Razumovskys. In Flow, Harvard Divinity School graduate Ngwenyama embraces the cosmos…or lets it embrace her. BMInt spoke with her and and Takács violinist Harumi Rhodes. FLE: We first met in 1999 when you gave a super viola recital at Harvard Musical Association. You probably don’t remember the event, but surely the baked beans, Welsh rabbit and ale must have traumatized you. [caption id="attachment_57592" align="alignright" width="425"] Composer and Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama. (Mark Morgan photo)[/caption] NN: I do remember the recital, and the flavor wasn’t bad. Nice to […]
2023-06-12 02:00:13
Taking the lead from Seymour Bernstein, who sent out a mega-mailing to his List-Serve members about pianist, Orli Shaham, I dashed off to an embedded link of superlative Mozart playing. The reading was permeated by an ever present singing tone, nuanced articulations, and a broad breadth of emotional expression. ( As you scroll down to…
2023-01-16 08:00:00
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