Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then more famous for its blatant baseball than its Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, Brooklyn tried a professional orchestra once more. Asked to guest-conduct, famed Sir Thomas Beecham accepted with a crusty warning: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment . . ." In World War II, so many players were drafted that the orchestra collapsed again...
Last Friday and Saturday, as a warmup for the Bach Mass, the Glee Club and Choral Society joined forces with Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Symphony in a powerful and awe-inspiring performance of Mahler's Symphony in C minor...
Sunday afternoon and evening, the entire Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing Bach's B Minor Mass at Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky. An intermission for supper will break the long program into two parts...
With ups and downs, Alfred Nash Patterson and his ambitious Polyphonic Choir of Christ Church have been presenting rarely sung sacred music. Such a group is much needed in a community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
Since October, he has played in 56 U.S. cities and gotten rave notices in all of them for his Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Last week, his powerful playing of the Tchaikovsky concerto had a usually unemotional Houston subscription audience shattering tradition and applauding after the first movement. At the end, he was recalled five times in the biggest ovation of the season...