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Article: NSO: Brahms Without the Body
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- The Washington Post
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- November 11, 1987
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George Bernard Shaw, who minced no words as a music critic, used
to make fun of Brahms' sensuousness, a quality the rest of us know is
one of the glories of his music. It was a quality, however, that was
curiously lacking during the first half of the National Symphony's
all-Brahms program Thursday night at the Kennedy Center.
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos led the orchestra and the Choral Arts
Society in reserved and careful readings of the "Schicksalslied" and
the Alto Rhapsody that sounded didactic rather than passionate. Even
mezzo-soprano Janice Taylor, ...