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...Ives was joking, his music could be something like a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a comic book frame, mocking people's belief that 'art' should be separate from 'life,' off somewhere in a museum; and when Ives was serious the hymns could come from the stringency as naturally as Bach's last Goldberg Variation could turn out to be a quodlibet of folksongs...
...BACH Society Orchestra is nothing like the old one, as last Saturday's concert readily proved. We've seen, at least for this year, the last of the showman's concerts, replete with publicity gimmicks and histrionic conducting, and the first of the music-lover's concerts, which stand firmly on its own musical integrity. It's easy to prophesy that this year the Bach Society will deliver some of its finest concerts ever...
Hugh Wolff made his debut as the new conductor, and ingeniously elicited the most sensitive performance I have heard from the Bach Society Orchestra. He was lucky to be conducting a select group of talented musicians--who were attracted to the Society in the first place by his reputation and his fresh, enterprising programming. This year's concerts will include works of Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Mahler and Stravinsky...
...short, the new Bach Society remains sophisticated, but it is enthusiastic, too. 'A radical change has taken place; the new Bach Society is alive...
...Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, Conductor, plays Debussy: L'apres-midi D'un Faune; Mozart: "Paris" Symphony, K. 297; and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, Richard Kogan, Piano. Tickets: $1.00 at Holyoke Center and the Door. Saturday...