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...seems tense over it. Unfortunately, she assumes that her life here was typical, and that is doubtful indeed. Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...
Country Cousins. The evening was right out of the 18th century: it might almost have been a concert led by Haydn at the court of the Esterhazys or a command performance by C.P.E. Bach for Frederick the Great. The assemblage of 153 guests was celebrated and varied. Not a single blue-ribbon American composer of serious music, from Aaron Copland to Alan Hovhannes, was missing from the guest list. The nation's leading conductors -Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski-were represented in white tie and tails, and all of the major music critics of New York and Washington were eagerly present...
...second half of the evening added the redoubtable and often noisy Roger Voisin to the orchestra for a performance of J.S. Bach's Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. But under the severe direction of Mr. Woodworth, and before the marvel that is Miss Addison's voice, even Mr. Voisin's trumpet was subdued and melodious...
...program was spaced out with several hors d'oeuvres--sinfonias from Handel's Solomon (a rather obvious choice), and from two Bach contatas (allowing Mr. Voisin to earn his keep). These received a very competent performance from Mr. Woodworth and his orchestra, but one can question their inclusion in the program: Miss Addison needs no chaser...
...Symphony Orchestra toured the country without a conductor after Toscanini's death. Mr. Schenck, who must see himself as a William Dobbin, should not accord the departed Joel Lazar the same rites. The Bach Society Orchestra this year stands in considerable need of a conductor, and one who will be both meticulous and despotic...