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...their instruments at the ready while Maestro Piatigorsky rumbles out his Russian-flavored instructions, or Primrose -ruddy, tweedy and bespectacled- earnestly demonstrates the fine points of bowing. The unexpected comic on the faculty is normally glacial Jascha Heifetz, who thoroughly enjoys his own mild musical gags, e.g., rippling through Bach with assorted notes slightly flatted to see if the pupils are alert enough to pick them...
...quality of Friday evening's Bach Society concert in Paine Hall ranged from bad to mediocre. Horn soloist Joel Kotin's silvery tone and sure techniqque almost raised Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto in E-flat to the level of excellence. But vacillating accompaniment from the orchestra, conducted by Andrew Schenck, and an intrinsically ordinary concerto, prevented even Kotin's performance from saving the program...
Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...
Recently Layton '63, recently named of the Bach Society Orchestra, lead the group for the first time at p.m. tonight in Palne Hall. The conductor, Andrew Schenck '62, conduct the orchestra in Wagner's fried Idyll, Mozart's Horn Concerto , and Bartok's Roumanian Dances. on the program: Bach's Branden- Concerto...
...Lowell House Opera will president La Pazzla Senlle, a Madrigal with mime tonight, tomorrow Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Lowell . Also on the program are works Monteverdi and Scarlatti and, Sunday at 3:30 p.m., a Bach harpsicord by Peter Wolf...