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...BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA. Andrew Schenk conducting with Richard Wilson soloist in a Mozart piano concerto. At Paine Hall, 8:00 p.m. Sunday...
People who are unaware of his talents often are startled to hear him absentmindedly humming a complicated passage from Bach's B Minor Mass. Bruce sings in several choirs, so his familiarity with music is greater than the average appreciative listener...
...over-refinement. While the music wanted to skip up the aisles of Sanders Theater, or in its serene moments, stretch out on its back and smile up at the ceiling, most of the performers held on to it with a mortal fear of spontaneity. Thus two sonatas by Bach and two by Mozart were unduly tame in a generally competent, but uninspired performance...
...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...
...Bach's Sonata No. 3 in E major for violin and klavier opened the program. In the classic manner, the gamba, with its forest of tuning pegs, doubled the continuo of the harpsichord. The trio maintained a nice balance; its members played to each other. But slippery intonation and lack of clarity marred the violin's performance, and the harpsichord indulged in unjustified rubatos and changes of tempi...