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MUSIC AND DANCE REVIEWS : Mozart Orchestra Ends Season in Style

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The Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra concluded its 1992-93 agenda with the stylish skill that has marked the ensemble’s work since conductor Lucinda Carver began her permanent association with them at the start of the current season.

The pleasures of Saturday’s all-Mozart concert in the Wilshire Ebell Theater ranged from discovery, in the seraphic Divertimento in D, K. 205, delivered with smoothness, dynamic subtlety and jaunty rhythmicality, to the even greater rewards of reacquaintance with an old friend: the “Linz” Symphony, cleanly, bracingly propelled by Carver and her responsive forces with striking refinement of the tricky string-wind balances in the deep, infinitely poignant slow movement.

Earlier, the program served as a showcase for tenor Greg Fedderly, who brought engaging stage presence and verbal point but also a good deal of constricted vocalism to a group of unhackneyed arias, including one--”Or che il dover m’astringe,” K. 36--by the 10-year-old prodigy.

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The concert opened with some delectable morsels, the Contredanses, K. 609, by the old--pushing 35--prodigy.

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