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Woody directs the HGC-RCS and Munch directs the BSO in a superlative performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 8:30 this evening. At not quite the other end of the musical spectrum Dizzy Gillespie draws crowds at Storyville...
...Radcliffe Freshman Chorus, the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, and the Bach Society Orchestra performed Gabrieli and Bach Sunday afternoon in Sanders Theater. A brass choir under the direction of Michael Senturia played the "Sonata Piane Forte," from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597), by Giovanni Gabrieli, and then chorus and orchestra joined in performing Bach's Magnificat in D, conducted by Allen Miller. The Gabrieli went well, with very few of those bloopers which are the bane of brass playing. The contrasts, "pian e forte," intended by the composer could have been brought out more effectively...
...their third record album the Dunster Dunces attempt, with spirit and some courage, to prove they are different. So they sing arrangements in styles from J.S. Bach to Ralph Burns to pseudo-Elvis Presley, venturing beyond the time-tested realms of usual college groups, like the Whiffen-poofs. But the danger in being daringly different is that to be successful, you must usually be not only unusual, but good...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Music and Techniques of Bach," with Leonard Bernstein...
...music in Wednesday evening's Music Club concert ran the gamut from the ridiculous to the nearsublime. Along this scale were works by three B's--not the original trio of Bach, Beethoven and Berlioz (the last of whom a fourth B, Hans von Bulow, changed to Brahms), but a new group comprising John Bavicchi 4G, Bertram Baldwin '58 and David Behrman...