Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also lose your line of development, especially in composing." Now his problem of too many skills is further threatened by his emergence as a TV performer. Bernstein is committed to two more Omnibus appearances this season, but his lively mind teems with dozens of projects: "I want to examine Bach and Mozart. People are always saying to me: 'Mozart is so tinkly; how can he be great?' If I can take them into his music, I think I can give them the answer." He also plans to investigate the art of singing with the help of fiery Soprano...
...Radcliffe and Harvard groups joined forces at the end of the concert for the Credo from the Lord Nelson Mass, by Haydn, and Bach's Wir Sctzen Uns from the St. Matthew Passion. A freshman chamber orchestra accompanied the Passions' magnificent lullaby. The two choruses sang well together; in the future they should join forces for a larger portion of their joint concerts. Both Miller and Radcliffe's Cornelia Davenport conducted with an agreeable lack of interpretive mannerisms. They deserve credit for building the freshman choruses into a fine musical organization...
Charles J. Van der Heide. Dunster; PBH; Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Bach Society; House athletics; Pre-Med Society...
...troublesome characteristic of rarely heard works of famous composers is that there is often a good reason for their obscurity. On Friday night the combined Glee Clubs of Smith and Harvard, assisted by the Bach Society Orchestra, gave Mozart's Vesperae de Dominica its first performance in this country. Unfortunately, it is not one of Mozart's more inspired works, only reaching greatness in a movement interpolated from a later Vespers...
...with some feeling. The interpolation also featured a golden-haired, golden-voiced soprano named Sue Glenn. Although her low notes were a little breathy, her attacks were clean, her high notes under control, and she was the only soloist of the evening who did not force her tone. The Bach Society Orchestra provided a uniformly capable accompaniment...