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Throughout the service the organ and harpsichord playing of Lois Pardue was exemplary. She was joined at the beginning of the program by two flutists in a lovely Bach sonata which benefited, as did the Choral singing, from the fine acoustics of Memorial Church
Having been deprived this year of the traditional services of Christmas music by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society in Memorial Church, the faithful trooped over to Sanders last Friday evening to hear the same forces, joined by the Bach Society Orchestra, offer season's greetings to the Cambridge community. Despite the changed locale and program, the atmosphere, which makes these concerts an annual success, was unchanged; and if the performances were not classically ideal, the large audience seemed, nevertheless, very well satisfied...
...that she sounds even better this year than before. Thomas Beveridge sang with his dependable musicality. And Sharon Price, breaking into the clique, provided the contrast of a more personal and emotional interpretation of her aria which followed an identical one by Miss Nicholas in the opening Bach Cantata...
...orchestra, led by John Harbison in the Bach and in Mozart's 18th Symphony in F major, has made an immense improvement over its first concert earlier this year. The tone, although still tentative-sounding, is more unified and much warmer, and the intonation is better. There is room for more variety in dynamics and a little more grace and awareness of details which would have especially added charm to the Mozart. Harbison's readings are entirely straightforward, concentrating on a good sound rather than interpretive depth; but the notes were, for the most part, well played...
...Bach's Cantata No. 142, which opened the program, has probably never had the benefit of a larger chorus, but the performance was remarkably gentle. The chorus did not sound overwhelmingly loud, but the orchestra was simply inaudible when there was singing going...