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Warmed up by the opening Bach Partita No. 5 (G major), Hellman played Beethoven's Sonata Op. 78 with delightful clarity. This oddly structured little sonata has two movements, both allegro, preceded by four measures of 'adagio cantabile.' The harmonies and motives of these four measures contain the thematic material of the following two movements in embryonic form. Hellman saw to it that those materials flowered. Judging Beethoven's instruction, 'Allegro ma non troppo' aright, he chose a properly delberate tempo, then, at the appropriate spots, took liberties with it. In the second movement, he went beyond the bounds...
Directed by Elliot Forbes, the program features Des Pres, Lassus, Bach, and Schuts. The concert will be cancelled in case of rain...
...their instruments at the ready while Maestro Piatigorsky rumbles out his Russian-flavored instructions, or Primrose -ruddy, tweedy and bespectacled- earnestly demonstrates the fine points of bowing. The unexpected comic on the faculty is normally glacial Jascha Heifetz, who thoroughly enjoys his own mild musical gags, e.g., rippling through Bach with assorted notes slightly flatted to see if the pupils are alert enough to pick them...
...quality of Friday evening's Bach Society concert in Paine Hall ranged from bad to mediocre. Horn soloist Joel Kotin's silvery tone and sure techniqque almost raised Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto in E-flat to the level of excellence. But vacillating accompaniment from the orchestra, conducted by Andrew Schenck, and an intrinsically ordinary concerto, prevented even Kotin's performance from saving the program...
Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...