Music

FRIDAY

Premiere of a work for winds and solo viola by Mark Pevsner '76 in concert along with compositions by Hindemith and Berger. Lowell JCR, 8 p.m.

Scandinavian songs presented by Luther Enstad, tenor, and Bryan Breindenthal, piano. Eliot Library, 8 p.m.

Solo improvisations on a variety of keyboard instruments played by Stephen Drury '77. Dunster Library, 5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Richard Kogan '77, piano, Tamara Mitchel, soprano, appear in solo with the St. Lowell in the Fields Orchestra under the baton of Gerry Moshell. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Brahms's Lieder. Lowell Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m. and repeat performance at 11:15 p.m.

Gary Wright, clarinet; Jackie Hoffman, cello; and Thomas Johnson, piano, perform Beethoven, Hindemith and Brahms in concert. Prelude at 8 p.m. featuring Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words." Winthrop JCR, 8:30 p.m.

SUNDAY

Gregory Colburn, cello, and Peter Lurye perform Beethoven and Debussy cello sonatas and Schubert piano sonanta. Winthrop JCR, 3 p.m.

The annual 1812 Overture blast in Lowell courtyard, which traditionally takes place on this date, has been deferred until the next Sunday afternoon, May 16, so that the Adams House rafts will be able to stay afloat in relatively serene waters.

New Music presented by the Harvard Group for new music, playing its third and last concert for the year. Works by Harvard composers Thow and Sirota in addition to Schoenberg. Kirkland JCR, 8:30 p.m.

An afternoon of chamber music, performed by students from Music 180. Works by Berg, Bach, and Brahms. Holmes Hall, North House, 1:30 p.m.

Gerry Moshell takes a final bow before a Harvard audience this Saturday night as he conducts the last of many gala extravaganzas that, along with various non-musical antics, have made him an almost legendary figure on the Harvard music scene. Acknowledging rumors that he has claimed to be returning to his native West Coast for good every one of the past eight years as a graduate student, this time, he says, it is for real.

One thing which will undoubtedly suffer from neglect in Moshell's absence is the concerto--a musical genre which demands both quantity and quality of players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde.

To sustain the richness of the first half, the concert will close with the grandiloquent Brahms Second Piano Concerto, with Richard Kogan '77 appearing as solo pianist. The composition is considered one of the most difficult works in the piano literature, not only from a technical standpoint, but more importantly, because of its musical demands.