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Joseph Schaaf, teacher of music at Weston Music School, is shown conducting a sight reading of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto at Dunster House yesterday afternoon...
Moscow, she observed, "isn't as sophisticated a city as, say, Leningrad, and I noticed that people wouldn't even applaud for a work by Bach." According to Pianist Starr, the jury distinguished "three distinct 'schools' of piano playing: American, French and Russian. And the thing that seemed to set the Americans apart was what they called 'overemotionalism...
Warmed up by the opening Bach Partita No. 5 (G major), Hellman played Beethoven's Sonata Op. 78 with delightful clarity. This oddly structured little sonata has two movements, both allegro, preceded by four measures of 'adagio cantabile.' The harmonies and motives of these four measures contain the thematic material of the following two movements in embryonic form. Hellman saw to it that those materials flowered. Judging Beethoven's instruction, 'Allegro ma non troppo' aright, he chose a properly delberate tempo, then, at the appropriate spots, took liberties with it. In the second movement, he went beyond the bounds...
...Bartok Suite Op. 14 also did not lack spirit and whimsy. When violence was in order, as in the 'Scherzo,' Hellman supplied it. In the concluding 'Sostenuto,' he gleefully intercalated a grotesque, ponderous obbligato, while reviving the lyricism which so finely sculptured the Sarabande in the Bach...
Directed by Elliot Forbes, the program features Des Pres, Lassus, Bach, and Schuts. The concert will be cancelled in case of rain...