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Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A program of Christmas music seldom heard, including selections by Poulenc, Messiaen, Foss, Handel, Bach and Britten...
...program opened and closed with sonatas by Bach and Haydn. Though Mr. Zaslaw's tone initially carried too much breath, it projected the low registers, and the breathiness disappeared later. Miss Chamberlain contributed wrong notes in the difficult spots; in the delicate passages she failed to make the crucial notes sound...
HAPPILY accepting the ensemble's divorced relationship from the band, Walker is hoping to have the music department sponsor the new group "in the same way it supports other fine music organizations such as the HRO and the Bach Society." He is working hard to "get the ensemble on its feet as soon as possible," and anticipates it will present works by Perischetti, Milhaud, and Hindemith "to a small, but discriminating audience...
...dead end for performing musicians, one has escaped. Friday, a freshman, James Boyk, presented a brief, but full piano recital in Paine Hall. Boyk gave his program virtues student recitals usually lack: clarity in widely divergent styles, and assured control. He played the opening Fantasy in C minor by Bach at just the right speed. In a piece easy to muddle, Boyk avoided the temptations of slopping meat where only a staunch skeleton was appropriate...
...transition from Bach to Ravel's Payane pour une enfante defunte justified Boyk's bypassing the tradition of chronological order in programming. This unusual juxtaposition sounded natural, although the Ravel, both composition and performance. suffered by comparison with the Bach: the piece meanders, and Boyk lost the melody en route...