Word: bache
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According to Koussy's interpretation, 18 members of the Symphony played Bach's soaring Air for the G String at the funeral service in Boston last week. The church bell tolled 76 times. Next day he was laid to rest in the maple-shaded grave he had chosen for himself two miles from the music center at Tanglewood...
...nodded solemnly, got into their costumes: choral robes in three shades of blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later...
...first preliminaries, there was little doubt among spectators or judges (among them: Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Oistrakh himself) as to the winner. Leonid Kogan, 26, native of Dnepropetrovsk, sounded brilliantly above the rest. But all four Russian entrants were among the twelve who survived the first high hurdles -a Bach sonata, a sonata by Ysaÿe, the great Belgian violinist (1858-1931), two concertos and six pieces of the contestants' choosing...
...week's end, Brussels music lovers got a rare dividend: a performance by the great David Oistrakh himself. Wearing his Stalin Prize medal, 42-year-old Oistrakh hypnotized them with a splendid playing of Bach's double concerto (with Belgian Violinist Arthur Grumiaux). At the end, the audience, including Queen Mother Elisabeth, stood and gave a four-minute ovation to the man who is Russia's finest violinist, and surely one of the finest in the world. It was his first performance in Western Europe in 14 years...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra played a Bach concert, symphonics by Mozart and Piston, and an orchestral tour de force by Richard Wagner. And the audience was one of music lovers--people who came to Sanders Theatre for an evening of aesthetic enjoyment...