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Last weekend, the Handel & Haydn Society, a Boston-based period orchestra, hosted the Modern Jazz Quartet at Symphony Hall. The groups offered three performances of Bach Variations, a concert designed to harmoniously integrate Bach and blues...
Christopher Hogwood, the artistic director of the baroque society, explained that Bach Variations was "part of [the Society's] exotic programming" and effort to incorporate various branches of music into one mellifluous concert...
...Bach Variations deserved the benefit of the doubt; the proof would lie in the performance...
...Society, with Linda Quan on violin and Hogwood conducting from his harpsichord, opened the program harmlessly enough with Bach's Sinfonia in F, BWV 1046a...
...highlight of the program was their second selection, Don't Stop this Train. Using Bach as a framework, Lewis created a set that bounced along, prodded by his fancy fingerwork on the piano...