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| Tonight's program was a really interesting blend of new music (in the first half, delivered very precisely, and with great élan), and a bit of the moldy stand by: who could possibly complain about old Ludwig van? Are you surprised to hear that someone would be me? I certainly loves my Ludwig, and his string quartets were a big part of the background music to my college studying, but tonight's rendition seemed to be shaded just a little too far outside the lines for me to be happy about it. Overall, I'd say that the Calder's performance was a very danceable approach, with a quite liberal variation on tempos from bar to bar and measure to measure. To the extent that this injected novelty into the performance, I enjoyed it. In fact, it worked great until the final movement, when the quartet seemed to run out of steam and lose sync with one another a couple of times. Messing with the time signatures is all great fun until someone trips over a loose stave and pokes an eye out. And that's what keeps conductors in business! | Tonight's program was a really interesting blend of new music (in the first half, delivered very precisely, and with great élan), and a bit of the moldy stand by: who could possibly complain about old Ludwig van? Are you surprised to hear that someone would be me? I certainly loves my Ludwig, and his string quartets were a big part of the background music to my college studying, but tonight's rendition seemed to be shaded just a little too far outside the lines for me to be happy about it. Overall, I'd say that the Calder's performance was a very danceable approach, with a quite liberal variation on tempos from bar to bar and measure to measure. To the extent that this injected novelty into the performance, I enjoyed it. In fact, it worked great until the final movement, when the quartet seemed to run out of steam and lose sync with one another a couple of times. Messing with the time signatures is all great fun until someone trips over a loose stave and pokes an eye out. And that's what keeps conductors in business! |
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| | Rebecca Wishnia posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-performances/adess-quartets-stack-up-well-in-calder-quartets-performance) of the show at SFCV. I disagree with her thought that the two sets blended nicely, but hey, no big deal. |
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