Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently Layton '63, recently named of the Bach Society Orchestra, lead the group for the first time at p.m. tonight in Palne Hall. The conductor, Andrew Schenck '62, conduct the orchestra in Wagner's fried Idyll, Mozart's Horn Concerto , and Bartok's Roumanian Dances. on the program: Bach's Branden- Concerto...
...Lowell House Opera will president La Pazzla Senlle, a Madrigal with mime tonight, tomorrow Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Lowell . Also on the program are works Monteverdi and Scarlatti and, Sunday at 3:30 p.m., a Bach harpsicord by Peter Wolf...
...program claims that the HRO was assisted by the Cambridge Ballet Theater. That is untrue. The opening "Air" and two "Gavottes" from Bach's Third Suite in D. Major had the misfortune to introduce dancers encumbered with awkward and ludicrous choreography. A troupe of rheumatic frogs would have been more graceful, although it must be added that soloist Richard Hendrik improved when the tempo picked up in the Gavottes, where Senturia got the orchestra to produce bouncy dynamic contrasts...
...that she contributes? Copland describes his view of it in this way: "It is literally exhilarating to be with a teacher for whom the art one loves has no secrets. Nadia Boulanger knew everything there was to know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp the still uncertain contour of an incomplete sketch, examine it, and fore-tell the probable and possible...
Madame Schwarzkopf, looking radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault...