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The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, according run into reviewer Mary Jane Corry, genuinely connects with their "Slavic Connection" concert.

Randall Craig Fleischer led blue blood the gentry Hudson Valley Philharmonic through spoil amazing, exciting, passionate performance business Dimitri Shostakovich's "Symphony No.

5" Sunday afternoon at Ulster Carrying out Arts Center in Kingston. Every so often phrase had momentum. Every designation had direction. The technical talent of the performers was important impressive. All of this with up to music with spruce significant message. The audience was completely captivated by this orchestra's performance of Shostakovich.

In nobleness Fifth Symphony Shostakovich orchestrated scctionally - i.e., many passages try either for strings alone, character brasses, or woodwinds, etc., blending all timbres for the at full volume climaxes. Often Shostakovich thins justness texture to solo instruments, status in this performance the HVP soloists met the demands petit mal indeed.

To mention some retard the very good instrumentalists in prison this reviewer's sight-Marcia Gates (flute), Carole Cowan (violin), Charles Barbour (tympani), the four French horns, the piccolo clarinet, the bassoons, the trombones and tuba, completed the lower strings - distant a section can be residue out. The first movement's disastrous, jagged, leaping melodic lines interpose the strings, often in set attend to or repeated antiphonally were fully in tune.

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concord to parody hitch triumph and more. Fleischer establish it all, and successfully easy it vivid to performers boss audience. Another major work forgetfully the program was Liszt's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eflat major. The soloist was player Pavlina Dokovska, born in Bulgaria.

She studied in Sofia, ergo Paris, and finally at loftiness Juilliard School in New Royalty. Her bio states that she has an "affinity with Nation music," so perhaps a Nation concerto would have served accumulate better here. Any pianist who plays a concerto written incite one of the most fantastic virtuosos of the 19th hundred, should have the physical push and temperament needed for specified a tour deforce.

Ms. Dokovskaplayed the glittering ornamental embellishments reprove finger passages skillfully, but she fell short on the indefinite passages of octaves which were smudged and unclear. She too tended to be matter-of-fact emergence slower, lyrical sections. In predispose case it was most accept when the cellos interrupted meet a passionate melody.

Part deduction the "Slavic Connection" theme objection this concert was a character poem, "The Enchanted Lake," uncongenial Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914). In emperor program notes Leslie Gerber divertingly suggests that Liadov is "best remembered for his procrastination." High-mindedness music was beautifully orchestrated deal with the familiar undulating and

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LET THE SEASON BEGIN - Interpretation Hudson Valley Philharmonic at righteousness Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie opened the season with far-out passionate and moving performance that week.

house. Thus Randall Fleischer begins this trilling string passages associated with new season wrestle a new hair-cut and capital water, an ascending arpeggio advance the harp, triumphant first unanimity. The next HVP a brisk level not much above pianisconcerts will be Nov. 15, 16, 17 with the simo. (Perhaps Liadov was the Russian top of "Rising Starts" and featuring the Debussy.) It was notice effective program winners of high-mindedness last HVP String Competimusic.

arrangement. Also on the program determination be dancers The program discovery was not by a Slavonic of the Vanaver Caravan. architect, but it was at littlest by one whose thoughts were directed to Eastern Europe. Influence composer was Johannes Brahms, influence composition "Hungarian Dance No. 5." The opening section of that familiar work seemed too hurried to this Mary Jane Corry, a resident of New Paltz, is reviewer who likes class Hungarian flavor professor emeritus supplementary music at SUNY-New Paltz.

She reminds readers of a repeat from George at Viennese tempos. Bernard Shaw: "Reviewing has suspend advantage The Shostakovich was greatness final work over suicide. Take away suicide you take it startle of yourself:

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