monday, april 17, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
Beaux Arts Trio does everything right
By Jonathan Brodie
"Ah, yes - 1827 - Wasn't that the year that Schubert
did nothing wrong?"
Audience remark overheard during the
Beaux Arts Trio concert last Saturday night.
It is a statement difficult to dispute - unless one
wishes to find fault with the Double Cello Quintet, the
two piano trios, and other masterpieces composed by the
youthful Schubert a year before his death. Yet the per
spicacious speaker of this remark failed to mention that
Menahem Pressler, Isidore" Cohen, and Bernard Green
house (sitting right in front of him in the Sheldon Art
Gallery) were, like the elder Schubert, doing nothing
wrong.
. music
(QVIGVJ
Perhaps it would be more positive to say that the
Beaux Arts Trio, in performing music of Mozart,,
Shostakovich, and the aforementioned Schubert for the
Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music series, were responsible
for doing everything right. .
One should not "review" a Beaux Arts Trio concert -that
is a dispassionate and distant word. Instead, one may
catalogue a series of subtle musical experiences that con
ceivably could be carried to the very foot of a chamber
music lover's death bed. It is a familiar thought that a
piece of music, capable of being re-performed at any time,
may take an important place in the human memory. Yet
it also seems possible for a single, unrecorded performance
to stick to a person's mind - to take on the tracings of a
masterpiece; the Beaux Arts Trio did not let its Lincoln
audience down.
Pressler, et al, began with a Mozart trio (K. 502) that
conveniently expressed the core of the Beaux Arts'
mastery - impeccable ensemble. That rare quality, no
matter how impassioned the playing became, never left
the stage. Greenhouse, who always manages to look re
markably impressive and serene behind his cello, let out
with a held note over two or three measures in the
largetto movement that, nine hours later, he still seems to
be holding.
To this early-music buff, who generally listens to the
music of Captain Tobias Hume and his contemporaries (he
died in 1650) the E minor Shostakovich Trio should have
presented some problems. After all, it was written in this
century, it has more than its fair share of gimmicks - but
it is also an overwhelming masterpiece. Violinist Cohen,
despite his slightly gruff demeanor, played with an
Hessidic abandon that the music deserves.
Placed on the piano bench was the irrepressible
Pressler. He is not only a virtuoso - but he is also fun to
watch. In the Schubert plus 100 trio (as well as previous
'wo pieces) he hardly glanced at his music. Thus it was
possible for us to witness his delightful facial expressions.
His sometimes pious, sometimes clownish features were
always eloquent. His playing was more so.
No matter where one places his musical talents, no
matter what medium of human endevor he is concerned
with - it is always enriching to watch masters at work.
. The Beaux Arts Trio is comprised of masters - and we
have been enriched.
Jonathan Brodie is a graduate student in the UNL
School of Music.
This is a list of musical events scheduled for
this week. Each is open to the public with no admis
sion charge unless otherwise noted. (S) denotes a
UNL School of Music event.
face the
musk
Monday: Sinfonia Jazz Concert, featuring Ray
Sasaki on trumpet, 8 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall,
tickets $2.50 at the door. (S)
Tuesday: Varsity Glee Club directed by Charles
Smith (program includes songs from musical
comedy, opera and English ballads), 8 p.m. in
Kimball Hall. (S)
Wednesday: Student recitals Stephanie Mendyk
(senior, oboe), Larry Musilek (senior, trumpet)
and Holly Berquist (senior, organ), in the Sheldon
Art Gallery auditorium; Jacqueline Jansma (senior,
saxophone) in the Choral Room (number 1 19) of
Westbrook Music Building. All begin at 3:30 p.m.
(S)
Friday: The Nebraska Chamber Orchestra featuring
David Van de Bogart on flute, Audun Ravnan on
piano and Emanuel Wishnow as conductor, 8 p.m.
at First Plymouth Congregational Church, 20th
and D Sts. Admission by series ticket or $5 regular
and $3 students at the door; Student recital -Don
Freed (graduate, voice) in Kimball Hall at 3:30
p.m.(S)
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