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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-09-22 23:10:46
Hewitt and BoCo Winds Show High Panache
[…] to impassioned outbursts before receding. The finale, “At Death’s Door—In Hora Mortis,” is the only movement of extended length, a dead march building passionately to something ecstatic like the finale of Ives’s Fourth Symphony. The performance by the ensemble was assured and committed, with a special shout-out to the trumpet soloist Matthew Nishida. Hewitt kept the momentum up and shaped Rautavaara’s phrases with economy and precision. The first half ended with BoCo faculty member Markus Placci as soloist in the remarkable Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op. 12 (well, there were a few contrabasses, but we’ll look over that) by the 24-year-old Kurt Weill. This was Weill’s last big orchestral work before writing The Threepenny Opera, and it bristles with the wit and iconoclastic enthusiasm one loves in Weill, though not quite yet with his pop-inflected mordancy. The opening movement is a set of variations on a somewhat Schoenbergian […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-04-29 23:57:23
[…] to constantly risk being overtaken in volume proves true confidence, and the willingness to lead by example, indeed. The long, drawn-out opening was saved from tenuousness, however, by strong solos, most notably from well-known faculty cellist Rhonda Rider. Her student Taide Carpio-Prieto held down the bass with precision and, in the Scherzo, the kind of exaggerated, hyper-graceful pizzicati favored by very elegant and passionate young cellists. On top of this, Silverstein and faculty violinist Markus Placci achieved an impressively ethereal sound. Of the entire group, Placci was perhaps the greatest pleasure to watch, joy and attentiveness evident on his face, his whole body radiating both enthusiasm and refinement. The Poco Adagio featured another slow and somewhat vague buildup before finally flowering in an explosive fugue; Silverstein still maintained a sweet, never strident, sound in the highest and most energetic passages. Violist Patricia McCarty and her student Madison Johnson joined the […]
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