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...music historians agree as to just how Bach came to write his two concertos for three pianos-a complicated, not to say cumbersome, kind of composition on the face of it. Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
Last week a distinguished musical family made Bach's D Minor Concerto a family affair. Famed French Pianist Robert Casadesus (rhymes with has a canoe) first broached the idea of playing the concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...
...Carnegie Hall audience heard the result of all the planning and practice. Conductor Mitropoulos took the podium, in front of the Philharmonic's strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...
...combined Harvard-Radcliffe Glee Clubs sang two carols on the State House steps last night as Boston opened its week-long Christmas Festival. They performed Bach's "Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light," and Billings' "A Virgin Unspotted...
Carl Weinrich, organist will perform his fourth recital at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Memorial Hall. Weinrich will play Chaconne in C minor by Buxtehude, Variations on "Warum betruebst du dich, mein Herz" by Scheidt, Toccata and Fugue in F major by Bach, Sixth Trio-Sonata in G major by Bach, and a Toccata by Robert Lamp...