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Seasickness v. Bach. To gird for the New Frontier. Romagna endlessly replayed tapes of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates, worked up an assortment of new shorthand symbols to fit New Frontier talk. One graceful jiggle of the Romagna pen, for example, expands into 13 words...
...Frontier bustle gives Romagna less time than ever for his other consuming interests: his wife, his two children, chess (he has 140 games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
Angel now also has one of the best recordings of J. S. Bach's Magnificat in D (Angel 45027). Here the tenor is again Richard Lewis, whose Deposuit potentes de sede is one of the clearest and most satisfying interpretations of that aria; Geraint Jones conducts his own capable orchestra. On the same record--and, though unseasonal, it is probably this fact that leads us to prefer Jones' recording--is a performance of Henry Purcell's magnificent and rarely heard Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. (Her majesty died of small pox on the fifth of March...
That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in better days, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J. S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (dam' fine fellahs, too) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...evening opened with J. S. Bach's Motet V, for which--an admission which will delight my numerous correspondents--I was not present. What I did hear, though, was first-rate. If Christmas and Christmas concerts only came more than once a year...