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...BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...
...BACH: CANTATA NO. 211 (Nonesuch). Wearing his worldly wig, Bach wrote a miniature operetta called the Coffee Cantata. A father threatens every punishment to save his daughter from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin...
...there was the Friend of All Cultures. Two weeks ago Johnson entertained Ireland's President Eamon de Valera. Last week he became the first U.S. President to receive officially an Israeli chief of state, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 68, whom Johnson entertained with a state dinner and Bach music by Violinist Mischa Elman, 73, and by the Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein...
Died. John Finley Williamson, 76, founder of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., whose aim was to restore to choral music the prestige it enjoyed in the days of Palestrina and Bach, over 40 years built one of the most highly respected choirs in the U.S., saw his students create carbon-copy "Westminster Choirs" in such faraway lands as Japan and India; of a heart attack; in Toledo...
...believes that a new work must mature in the minds of maestro, musicians and public. His patience has often been rewarded. In 1928 he became the founder and conductor of Mexico's first major symphony orchestra. Giving free concerts, he taught his musically illiterate audiences the wonders of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Chávez. His own early compositions, such as the brilliant, flavorful Sinfonia India, in which indigenous folk tunes were distilled with impressive originality, earned him a reputation for localism that Chávez now frankly deplores. To critics who affect to hear the wind through...