Friday, December 11, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9
Brazos Valley Orchestra
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The Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra.
By Brian Frederick
Reviewer
Over 800 people were treated to a
sterling pertormance of the Brazos
Valley Symphony Orchestra Thurs
day night in Rudder Auditorium.
The orchestra, conducted by
Franz Anton Krager, performed
works by Salieri, Mozart and Tchai
kovsky, supplying the audience with
a delightful respite from work and
studies.
At the end of the evening, the
performers’ efforts were rewarded
with a standing ovation. Members of
the audience praised the perfor
mance with sucn adjectives as “won
derful,” “thrilling” and “glorious”.
One lady commented that she could
hardly believe that the local sym
phony was this good and favorably
compared it with the Warsaw Sym
phony Orchestra, which was here
last spring.
The orchestra’s stirring perfor
mance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Sym
phony in E minor proved to be no
letdown from October’s perfor
mance of Beethoven’s famous Ninth
Symphony. According to Executive
Director Wendy Dackson, these fine
back-to-back performances “are a
shadow of good things to come.”
The orchestra opened the pro
gram with “Axur re D’Ormus,” a
short piece by Antonio Salieri.The
piece was smartly played and dem
onstrated that Salieri was a compe
tent composer though by no means a
great one.
Mozart’s “Symphony Concertan-
te,” which followed, made the dis
tinction between good and great
clear.
Written for flute, oboe, bassoon,
horn and orchestra, the piece quiedy
sparkled. The soloists’ instruments
gendy chattered back and forth to
one another and to the orchestra.
All the soloists played well, but
Philip Alexander on the oboe was
particularly outstanding.Tchaikovs-
ky’s Fifth deals with the theme of
man’s struggle against Fate.
The first movement opens sol
emnly with Fate’s theme slowly
played on the clarinet. Man’s theme
later enters heroically, but Fate soon
returns to dog his steps, and the
movement ends on an ominous note.
The slow second movement paints
a tranquil picture of life that is occa
sionally disurbed by Fate’s discor
dant intrusions.
Warped
Photo by Jay Janner
A cheerful waltz in the third
movement suggests that Fate has
been routed, but the end of the
movement reveals that it was only
Fate masquerading. Hope for Man
builds fleetingly in the fourth
movement, but he soon finds him
self in a race with Fate that he cannot
win. The movement ends with a
powerfully dominating victory
march for Fate.
Conductor Krager deliberately
chose pieces by the rivals Mozart and
Salieri for the sake of those who had
seen the movie “Amadeus”. He
wanted to demonstrate that they had
been real men involved in a real ri
valry.
The works he chose revealed that
while Salieri was indeed a good com
poser, Mozart’s genius completely
eclipsed him.
If nothing else, the Orchestra’s
performance is an indication that at
least one oasis of culture exists in the
supposed cultural wasteland of
Rryan-College Station.
The Orchestra will follow Thurs
day’s concert with performances of
Englebert Humperdinck’s “Hansel
and Gretel” in February.
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