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Article: Davies' Scottish Mischief
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- The Washington Post
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- November 12, 1988
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It was not easy to top the second-last item on last night's
program in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. That was Mozart's Piano
Concerto No. 20 in D minor, played with subtlety and slightly
melancholy grace by Cecile Licad with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
But the final item was more vivid. It was Davies' folksy and
hilarious tone poem "An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise," in which the
"dance band" gets drunker and drunker and the style veers toward jazz
and even polytonality before staggering back to the true folk flavor.
At one point last night, when concertmaster John Doig's momentum
began to run down, Davies handed him a glass with some sort of ...