Thursday, April 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
^English octet shares ‘easy warmth’ with audience
By SARAH OATES
Senior Staff Writer
Hailed as the finest octet to
come out of Great Britain, St.
Martin in the Fields Orchestra
lived up to its reputation
Wednesday night. The ensem
ble performed three works in
Rudder Auditorium.
Chamber music is defined as
being appropriate for perfor
mance in a small, private room
or hall. Although Rudder Audi
torium is not an intimate set
ting, and though it was filled to
near-capacity, the eight musi
cians played with the easy
warmth an audience could ex
pect to share in a chamber set-
ting.
The first presentation,
Brahms Sextet in B flat major.
Opus 18, provided a winsome
opening to the performance.
The solemn first movement led
into a melancholy second
movement, which in turn meta
morphosed into a spritely mel-
ody during the third
movement. The fourth
movement, a lively exchange
between the cellos and violins,
was a rousing climax to the
work.
For the second piece, the Pre
lude and Scherzo for String Oc
tet, by Shostakovich, the group
was joined onstage by another
violin and viola. This work was
an opportunity for the musi
cians to demonstrate their virtu
osity, but had a mournful and
almost contentious flavor. This
work was unpleasantly disso
nant.
The last work presented was
the famed Mendelssohn Octet
in E flat major, Opus 20. This
was a marvelous piece that
brought the evening to an en
ergetic close. During the four
movements, the violins, violas
and cellos sounded as if they
were engaged in an alternately
frivolous, then more serious
conversation that built to an ex
citing peak during the third and
fourth movements.
This work was particularly vi
brant and demanding; the mu
sicians performed with a partic
ular synergy that surpassed the
rest of the evening’s fare.
First violinist Kenneth Sillito
played with warmth and brilli
ance. His performance was
richly textured and at the same
time very controlled.
Cellist Denis Vigay also deliv
ered a fine performance. The
mellow violas and the physical
exuberance of Sillito and Vigay,
combined with outstanding per
formances by the cellists made
this a memorable evening.
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Photo by JOHN RYAN
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Wednesday. The concert was spon
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seminate about six stallions and
mares. If everything goes
smoothly, the processs from
stallion to mare usually lakes
just 20 minutes.
The rest of the day is spent
making calls of varied sorts,
ranging from castration to
birth. Assisting in births are eas
ily her favorite type of call.
“There is nothing I like more
than helping to give birth to a
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»ed tojad jeiused to me in blue jeans and
ckupajfl boots.”A year and a half ago,
Fiske began working at a local
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to people unfamiliar with the
process, but it is a routine part
of Fiske’s job.
“I work out and lift weights
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