Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality and deflect the lights to suit the mood of the music (an alarming prospect for people who do not particularly want to hear Bach in the dusk...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch Conducting, plays at Tangle wood (Lenox, Mass), in the 1961 Berkshire Festival from July 5 through August 20. At the Festival 15 concerts by the Full orchestra will be given, plus six chamber orchestra concerts of music by Bach and Mozart, seven chamber music recitals, and two guests will be Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Fiedler, and Richard Burgin...
...state scholarship, he startled Berkeley professors with his "knack for understanding something very complex almost immediately, almost offhandedly.'' Though he says that he ''likes people," he shunned all organized campus activity (including last week's commencement), instead played public-links golf, listened to Bach and Bartok records in his rooming-house quarters. He will study for a Cal doctorate in solid-state physics, but refuses to get excited over his potentially brilliant career. Says he: "I never plan anything more than three days in advance...
Walker has admirably avoided transcriptions from other mediums, but the one he did choose showed just how bad the results of such adaptations can be. This, a Toccata, was written by Frescobaldi, but you wouldn't know it from the transcription. Like Stokowski's orchestral renditions of Bach organ music, the adaptation turned the freshness and grace of the 17th century toccata into trite 20th century melodrama. Walker added to the distortion by twisting the evenness of the melodic lines with Romantic nuances...
...Bach Society showed what an excellent accompanying group it can be. Mr. Lazar can make his orchestra glisten like a winter day in Vermont; they are immediate and keen. The winds, always good, played with unusual elegance, and in the dialogue between the solo and accompanying oboes in the final allegro assai, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish Mr. Still from the Society's James Weiss and Eliot Noyes...