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Article: BSO Chamber Players don't always mesh as one
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1998
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THE BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS At: Seiji Ozawa Hall at
Tanglewood, Friday night and Sunday afternoon
LENOX -- The Boston Symphony Chamber Players' performances in
chamber-music weekend at Tanglewood characteristically ranged from
the superb to the mundane. As the principal players of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, these musicians did not choose each other; Seiji
Ozawa chose nearly all of them. In orchestral contexts, they may
sound wonderful together, or wonderfully complementary, but chamber
music can expose differences of style, personality, and experience
that are damaging to the genre.
There was nothing remarkable, for example, about the performance
of a Schubert String Trio Friday ...