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...presenting a program which G. Wallace Woodworth described as "a grand cycle of moods," the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society adapted their voices to the "sacred joy" of Bach, the tense drama of Holst and Stravinsky, and the light "profane joy" of Lambert...
...rather dead, determined performance of Bach's "Herr Gott, Dich Loben Wir" smothered the exuberance of the "sacred joy." Much more satisfying were the two choruses from Handel's "Solomon." Delicacy and perfect balance characterized the lyric invocation "Music Spread Thy Voice Around." The second, more dramatic chorus, performed with skill and sensitivity, enabled an easy transition to the tragic mood of the two following works...
Featured on the same program will be "Hecuba's Lament" by Holt, two choruses from "Solomon" by Handel, and a chorus from Bach's 16th cantata...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
...Best in the world: Pablo Casals, who came out of his retirement briefly last year for the Bach festival at Prades (TIME, June...