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...Saturday, F. John Adams and the Collegium Musicum will perform Bach's B-Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest mass ever written (sorry Missa Solemnis fans...
Works of lves, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven. Maxine Warshauer, Pianist, and Sarah Tenney, Percussionist; Kirkland...
Works of Beethoven, Bach and Debussy, Sheila Reinhold, violinist, and Max Sung pianist, Holmes Living Room...
...P.D.Q. BACH'S MUSICAL ineptness was not the sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune. Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other. A lesser problem was his lack of melodic gift. As the third movement of the Serenoodle, entitled "Chorale Prelude," amply demonstrated. P.D.Q. Bach stole tunes from his better freely and without compunction...
...Band's conductor Thomas G. Everett (who moonlights as president of the international Trombone Association) caught the spirit of P.D.Q. Bach's music, much as millions of P.D.Q.'s contemporaries caught the bubonic plague and various other diseases. After beginning the concert with an accurate and witty performance of Charles Ives's Country Band March. Everett conducted a series of progressively less interesting pieces, as if to lessen the shock of the Serenoodle. And if the Band's playing was occasionally imprecise or out of tune, that was all right. One felt that, somehow, P.D.Q. wouldn't have wanted...