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Article: RAINBOWS, GOD, HUNGARY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 9, 1989
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Robert Kyr's Symphony No. 4, in its premiere Friday night by the
New England Philharmonic under Jeffrey Rink, made for one of the most
absorbing half-hours your reviewer has had all season. It was plain
that the Cambridge- based Kyr is a composer who eats, drinks, thinks
and breathes orchestral music. It's his element. His music always
sounds. He is a man to keep your eye on.
%EC%How did this "dance symphony in three movements" actually
go? In the first movement a lithe, sprightly orchestral gallop
vanished at one point into a haze of strange, bright instrumental
colors, emerging at the other side not quite the same. The second
("Serene Dance") was shimmering and choral, beautiful and ...