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...Francisco has a new tradition: street musicians. Along with the cable cars, that famous bridge, the bay and the sourdough bread, the city now has a sweet sonic oddity: strains of Bach, Mozart and Telemann being tootled on street corners. The players are young, serious and usually talented. Without exception, they are determined. It takes tenacity to concentrate on a fugal entry as cable cars rattle past, stray dogs water the violin case, and an "occasional drunk keeps insisting on pop tunes...
...pieces by more obscure authors. Their program Sunday included Stravinsky's Eight Instrumental Miniatures for Fifteen Players, a series of marvelously pleasant little mood pieces, each a short, refreshing musical exercise with a peculiar beauty; Davies's Antechrist, a strangely medieval piece which the orchestra handled skillfully; and Bach's Suite No. 3 in D Major, a bright, sometimes majestic piece built on sparing major chords which received a thrilling performance...
...BACH Society orchestra can claim fame as the orchestra that brought you the "Concerto Scene" in Love Story. This weekend, though, there's a real concert, featuring two works for soprano performed by Pene lope Jense. Mrs. Jensen, a graduate of the Ed School, has not sung in this kar with the unmistakable Frenchness area since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since then, she has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous...
...Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera. The latter involves solos from all sections of the orchestra including an extremely flashy violin variation played by Robert Portney '74. The rest of the orchestra's personnel includes members of the tennis, lacrosse, swimming and baseball teams, an ex-conductor of the Bach Society, the daughter of a world-famous harpsichordist, a former House Master, an oboist who does remarkable animal imitations, and, pound for pound, the greatest tympanist in the world. This unusual aggregation will be conducted by Martin Kessler '71, who was quoted as saying, "don't miss this...
...great debate will probably lead policymakers to use an eclectic blend of Keynesian fiscal principles and Friedman monetary principles. Stanford's George L. Bach, one of the most eminent neutral economists, argues that neither fiscal nor monetary policy alone "is powerful enough to regulate the economy effectively. If the Government is sensible, it will always use both." As a decade of prosperity, inflation and recession has demonstrated, changes in taxes and Government spending are difficult to arrange but quick to act on the economy. By contrast, money policies can be changed overnight, but their effect is long delayed...