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Douglas Harvey

Presented by Austin Symphony Orchestra at The Long Center: Michael and Susan Dell Hall

March 12-March 13, 2010

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“[Harvey] brought rich tone, beautiful vibrato, assertive and sensitive phrasing…” – San Antonio Express News

Cellist Douglas Harvey delivers a program of Dukas, Tchaikovsky, and R. Strauss

 

 

 

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    The Long Center for the Performing Arts > The Long Center: Michael and Susan Dell Hall

    The Long Center for the Performing Arts
    701 W. Riverside Drive
    Austin, TX 78704

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    Dates:
    March 12-March 13, 2010

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    8pm

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    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "ASO and D.Harvey Open SXSW"
      Review posted by: Will Godwin from Austin, TX, Mar 17, 2010
      

      ASO Rocks! Director Peter Bay playfully announced the grand opening of SXSW and led his charges through a magical Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a romantic Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, leading... Expand

      ASO Rocks! Director Peter Bay playfully announced the grand opening of SXSW and led his charges through a magical Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a romantic Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, leading to the post-intermission performance of Strauss' Don Quixote featuring Douglas Harvey, ASO's premiere cellist. Douglas Harvey is a great local-boy-makes-great story and his and the ASO's outstanding performance in the wonderful Dell concert hall at the Austin-esque Long Center was a night to remember. The ASO audience stood-up to show their appreciation of the young talent and Peter Bay and the ASO. The Live Music capitol of the World certainly has it all and this "lead-off performance" of SXSW certainly lends credence to Austin's claim. Collapse

    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "Hello, Mellow Cello . . .and Distractions"
      Review posted by: Preston Kirk from Spicewood TX USA, Mar 13, 2010
      

      Confession time: I’m a lover of symphonic music...was even a spokesman for an 80-piece North Texas orchestra at one time. But I'm no music critic. Try as I might to concentrate on the brilliant... Expand

      Confession time: I’m a lover of symphonic music...was even a spokesman for an 80-piece North Texas orchestra at one time. But I'm no music critic. Try as I might to concentrate on the brilliant cellist Douglas Harvey at Friday night’s performance, I. . .well (gulp) got lost in the overwhelming spectacle of an evening with the entire ASO . . . in the fabulous Michael and Susan Dell Hall . . . from a fantastic orchestra seat . . . immersed in wonderful acoustics. Oh, sure, I love the playfulness of Paul Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and appreciate even more the non-splintered version. (Sorry, Walt. Sorry, Mickey.) However, the cartoon still running in my mind’s eye distracted me. And as the symphony beautifully rendered the “Fantasy-Overture” from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, a radio-TV spokesman intoning, “You can own the world’s most beautiful music” – yeah, I bought the entire set – was stuck like a broken record in my head. The orchestra played with passion (more) Collapse

    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "A-S-O is Super A-O-K"
      Review posted by: Ronda Dale Kirk from Spicewood TX USA, Mar 13, 2010
      

      Literature inspired a most entertaining musical program, which Conductor Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony performed exquisitely. The lively opening was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Paul... Expand

      Literature inspired a most entertaining musical program, which Conductor Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony performed exquisitely. The lively opening was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Paul Dukas), which always brings back wonderful childhood memories of Disney's "Fantasia." Tchaikovsky's lovely “Romeo and Juliet” (Fantasy-Overture) truly is some of the "world's most beautiful music." Featured performer, cellist, Douglas Harvey, was brilliant with solos in Richard Strauss' “Don Quixote, Opus 35.” For those of us less knowledgeable of the variations, the short projected explanations and the program notes were invaluable in understanding how the music told the story. Sustained applause and several curtain calls were well deserved. The audience also got a pre-show preview of the upcoming 100th ASO, and it appears to be a broad spectrum of enjoyable artists not the least of whom will be world-renowned violin virtuoso Itzahk Perlman. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "ASO and D.Harvey Open SXSW"
      Review posted by: Will Godwin from Austin, TX, Mar 17, 2010
      

      ASO Rocks! Director Peter Bay playfully announced the grand opening of SXSW and led his charges through a magical Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a romantic Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, leading... Expand

      ASO Rocks! Director Peter Bay playfully announced the grand opening of SXSW and led his charges through a magical Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a romantic Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, leading to the post-intermission performance of Strauss' Don Quixote featuring Douglas Harvey, ASO's premiere cellist. Douglas Harvey is a great local-boy-makes-great story and his and the ASO's outstanding performance in the wonderful Dell concert hall at the Austin-esque Long Center was a night to remember. The ASO audience stood-up to show their appreciation of the young talent and Peter Bay and the ASO. The Live Music capitol of the World certainly has it all and this "lead-off performance" of SXSW certainly lends credence to Austin's claim. Collapse

    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "Hello, Mellow Cello . . .and Distractions"
      Review posted by: Preston Kirk from Spicewood TX USA, Mar 13, 2010
      

      Confession time: I’m a lover of symphonic music...was even a spokesman for an 80-piece North Texas orchestra at one time. But I'm no music critic. Try as I might to concentrate on the brilliant... Expand

      Confession time: I’m a lover of symphonic music...was even a spokesman for an 80-piece North Texas orchestra at one time. But I'm no music critic. Try as I might to concentrate on the brilliant cellist Douglas Harvey at Friday night’s performance, I. . .well (gulp) got lost in the overwhelming spectacle of an evening with the entire ASO . . . in the fabulous Michael and Susan Dell Hall . . . from a fantastic orchestra seat . . . immersed in wonderful acoustics. Oh, sure, I love the playfulness of Paul Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and appreciate even more the non-splintered version. (Sorry, Walt. Sorry, Mickey.) However, the cartoon still running in my mind’s eye distracted me. And as the symphony beautifully rendered the “Fantasy-Overture” from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, a radio-TV spokesman intoning, “You can own the world’s most beautiful music” – yeah, I bought the entire set – was stuck like a broken record in my head. The orchestra played with passion (more) Collapse

    • Event Name: Douglas Harvey
      "A-S-O is Super A-O-K"
      Review posted by: Ronda Dale Kirk from Spicewood TX USA, Mar 13, 2010
      

      Literature inspired a most entertaining musical program, which Conductor Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony performed exquisitely. The lively opening was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Paul... Expand

      Literature inspired a most entertaining musical program, which Conductor Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony performed exquisitely. The lively opening was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Paul Dukas), which always brings back wonderful childhood memories of Disney's "Fantasia." Tchaikovsky's lovely “Romeo and Juliet” (Fantasy-Overture) truly is some of the "world's most beautiful music." Featured performer, cellist, Douglas Harvey, was brilliant with solos in Richard Strauss' “Don Quixote, Opus 35.” For those of us less knowledgeable of the variations, the short projected explanations and the program notes were invaluable in understanding how the music told the story. Sustained applause and several curtain calls were well deserved. The audience also got a pre-show preview of the upcoming 100th ASO, and it appears to be a broad spectrum of enjoyable artists not the least of whom will be world-renowned violin virtuoso Itzahk Perlman. Collapse

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