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Harvard has a long tradition of good singing under the legendary Doc Davison, and Elliot Forbes. Current conductor F. John Adams has scheduled an ambitious start for the Collegium; their first concert is of works from Byrd and Bach to Brahms and Debussy. In the spring they will join the Boston Symphony for one of the new Spectrum Concerts: religious music of Bach, Del Tredici, Josquin, and Messiaen. Adams has also planned an informal chanson and madrigal session on the banks of the Charles...
Memorial Church has always been a big contributor to Cambridge music. John Ferris, University Organist, has put together an intriguing schedule in addition to the usual Choir offering at morning and Sunday services. In three programs, the Choir will present the unusual Distler Todtentanz, Bach Cantata No. 39, and the Schuetz Weinachtshistorie. The Schuetz was done last Christmas at the Busch-Reisinger Museum and is a worthwhile, moving work. Since this composer is a favorite of John Ferris's, the performance will likely be quite good. The same prediction holds for the two-day Schuetz Festival in the spring...
...group to watch this season is the Bach Society, a chamber orchestra of some forty players. Nils Vigeland's talent, taste and personality make him the most exciting musical force at Harvard. Given any kind of support by his orchestra he will provide an extraordinary season of unusual works. Only one familiar piece is in the first program of Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, and Wolf. While the HRO has abolished soloists, the Bach Society will use them in every program. A special American Music concert will feature student compositions. But the real "jump off the deep end" (in Vigeland...
...music. Many people respond only to one of these forms. That highly desirable situation must not change. If Maestro Boulez conducts only to effect a change, then he is willfully ignoring the musical needs of all Western civilization, which needs profound and penetrating performances of the symphonic repertoire from Bach through Brahms...
...concerts Maazel has given with virtually every major orchestra in the world during the past two decades, he has shown that his heart is as old-fashioned as was Szell's. Cleveland listeners may expect large doses of the 19th century (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky), snippets of Baroque (Bach, mostly) and careful slices of the 20th century (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Bartok). Thus the Maazel appointment means that Cleveland intends to continue its Old World ways, with one important exception: Maazel (born in Paris of California parents) is only the second American, after Leonard Bernstein, ever to head one of the five...