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After Harvard's football victory Saturday afternoon, a dejected Dartmouth band played dejected marches for Dartmouth sympathizers in Carey Cage. A few hours later the band's listless spirit reappeared in Paine Hall, where the Bach Society Orchestra presented its first concert of the season. Only after the orchestra slept through its own performances of Bach's Suite for Orchestra No. 2 and Mozart's Symphony No. 33 did it display any enthusiasm or care for detail; then conductor Greg Biss led a more inspired performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D major...
...attribute the tedium of the opening Suite solely to Bach would be unjust. The technical incompetence of the soloist, Miss Alice Kogan, a junior at Brandeis, and the fungoid dullness of the orchestral accompaniment are at least as much to blame. Because Miss Kogan persisted in breathing several times during each phrase with more than two notes, she fell behind the orchestra repeatedly. In the sections of episodic (i.e., filler) material which called for nonchalant technical display, her runs, arpeggios, and jumps simply lacked the facility to keep up with the orchestra...
...RECORDS BACH: THE SIX PARTITAS (Columbia). Musical paleontologists are invariably scandalized by Glenn Gould's approach to Bach: he plays the sublime master with more love of the living than respect for the dead. Such inspired impishness occasionally leads him astray, but here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano...
...BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, Vols. I and II (London). Harpsichordist George Malcolm never disobeys his metronome or his score, and the glimmer of life that survives has all the dignity of age with none of the frailties...
...BACH FOR HARPSICHORD (Columbia). Fernando Valenti has a lyrical touch for his mechanical instrument and just the blithe spirit to go with it. More musical than Malcolm, more guarded than Gould, Valenti plays a textbook Bach with joy and devotion...