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Rumor has it and common sense would tend to confirm that the new Bach Society will be better than the last. The talented new conductor, Hugh Wolff, promises a real symphonic sound in concerts spanning the spectrum of music history. This Saturday the Bach Society presents Harvard's first orchestral concert, featuring Richard Kogan, winner of last year's HRO concerto competition, in Beethoven's 4th. Concert-goers, take heed of this auspicious occasion. Karen Hsiao...
...output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic mystery and 20th century guts and power. Its complex, contrapuntal layers of sound are clearer, more sharply defined than would have been possible with a conventional pipe organ. Pipe organs rarely sound as well...
Good use of the new Boesendorfer piano this weekend. We have a chance to hear Hugh Wolff, pianist, composer, and new conductor of the Bach Society, play Schumann and Brahms on Saturday. The following evening, Lydia Artymiw will perform in an interesting program consiting of popular Romantic composers...
David Schulenberg, '76, plays Frescobaldi, Couperin, and Bach on the harpsichord. Free. Friday...
...roof garden that was build on top of Hemispheres' two rooms. The downstairs area still has an atmosphere that can only be described as unique--where else other than the Sistine Chapel is the ceiling (covered by art prints) more interesting than the walls? The best of Bach and Beethoven rounds out the "cultured" atmosphere and also serves to filter out the noise of the Mt. Auburn St. delivery trucks and buses...