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...state scholarship, he startled Berkeley professors with his "knack for understanding something very complex almost immediately, almost offhandedly.'' Though he says that he ''likes people," he shunned all organized campus activity (including last week's commencement), instead played public-links golf, listened to Bach and Bartok records in his rooming-house quarters. He will study for a Cal doctorate in solid-state physics, but refuses to get excited over his potentially brilliant career. Says he: "I never plan anything more than three days in advance...
Walker has admirably avoided transcriptions from other mediums, but the one he did choose showed just how bad the results of such adaptations can be. This, a Toccata, was written by Frescobaldi, but you wouldn't know it from the transcription. Like Stokowski's orchestral renditions of Bach organ music, the adaptation turned the freshness and grace of the 17th century toccata into trite 20th century melodrama. Walker added to the distortion by twisting the evenness of the melodic lines with Romantic nuances...
...Joel Lazar, the outgoing conductor of the Bach Society, is not a man to submit to Mr. T.S. Eliot's strictures on Last Things; the final concert of his tenure proved to be one of his very best. Ray Still, the oboeist, Joel Sachs, pianist, and Mark B. DeVoto, an undergraduate composer, contributed materially to the evening's excellence, but Mr. Lazar's triumph eclipsed even these gentlemen...
...Bach Society showed what an excellent accompanying group it can be. Mr. Lazar can make his orchestra glisten like a winter day in Vermont; they are immediate and keen. The winds, always good, played with unusual elegance, and in the dialogue between the solo and accompanying oboes in the final allegro assai, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish Mr. Still from the Society's James Weiss and Eliot Noyes...
...BACH SOCIETY'S last concert of the season (it is also, said to tell, Joel Lazar's last concert, ever, as undergraduate conductor) will include the World Premiere of Senior Mark B. DeVoto's specially commissioned introduction (for the piano, K. 459, Joel A. Sachs '61; and for the K. 314, soloist; Ray Still, of Chicago Sanders Theatre, 3:30 P.M. Tickets: $.75 at the or at the door...