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...Novaë's was back in Town Hall, where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the first pearly notes of a Bach-Siloti Prelude, gathered excitement with Beethoven's "Waldstein" and steeped Schumann's Kinderscenen and three Chopin pieces in reflective romanticism. She wound up with three works by her prolific countryman, Villa-Lobos. When the stormy applause finally abated, Guiomar Novaë's got ready to go home...
...Cambridge Society for Early Music devoted all three of its concerts this fall to works by Johann Scbastian Bach. In the second concert, Ruth Posselt was the featured soloist in three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely...
This three-part series had a purpose beyond displaying the fecundity and variety of Bach's creation: the final concert focused upon the very axis of his work, the climax and culmination, both literally and figuratively, of his polyphonic genius, The Art of the Fugue. The first concert, as if in preparation, had featured The Musical Offering, whose ten canons and gigantic six voice fugue might be considered a complement to Bach's abstract on polyphony...
...program will include music by Byrd, Purcell, Bach, Rameau, and Arne...
...Glee Club will present the Damnation of Faust by Berlioz on the first broadcast, March 4, and Bach's B Minor Mass on the second, April 22. This performance of the Mass will be the first since the Glee Club sang it five years ago, when the late Serge Konssevitsky was conducting the Boston Symphony...