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With the first wave of his long, seemingly boneless hands, tall Conductor Mitropoulos gave them a sample of the moderns-cum-classics programs they could expect on many evenings this season. The opener: a monstrously brassy orchestration by the late Italian composer, Alfredo Casella, of the Chaconne from Bach's Suite No. 2 for Solo Violin. Beethoven's happy Fourth Symphony, delicately if fussily performed, smoothed down ruffled feathers momentarily, but Prokofiev's screaming Symphony No. 5 got some of them ruffled right up again...
...cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have a Go! features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial...
...singers will also perform in Cambridge preceding the Yale game and away before the Princeton game. On December 26 and 27 they will present the Bach Magnificent in Sanders Theatre...
This concert was the first of eight to be given this year. The program included the Toocats and Fugue in F. Major by Buxtehude, and six chorale-preludes by Bach. Weinrich also played Bach's prelude and Fugue in B minor and Mogart's Andante...
...listeners, who had taken almost every available seat before the concert started, also heard the Sonata No. 1 in E Fiat Minor by Hindemith and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor...