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Alexander Schneider and Ralph Kirkpatrick had another homecoming in Sanders Theater Wednesday night, where they played four sonatas for violin and harpsichord by Bach and Mozart. Though the concert was sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, it was appropriate that Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge took her customary seat in the front row. Under her auspices, the duet made its debut in Sanders seven years ago, and in later concerts which she supported they achieved their unsurpassed fame...
...Bach's Sanata in A major will open the program, followed by his Sonata in B minor and Mozart's Sonata in. C major and D major...
...Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers a similar course for the many chamber music performers in the University of equal value...
Koussevitzky's interpretation of Bach's Mass in B Minor yesterday afternoon and evening in Symphony Hall would not have satisfied a purist. The retards on cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...
This is an appropriate place to heap superlatives on G. Wallace Woodworth. There is probably no more challenging work in all musical literature than the B Minor Mass, and enormous ambition and perseverance are required to undertake it at all. In addition, Woodworth's philosophy of Bach is almost the antithesis of Koussevitzky's yet he trained the Chorus to respond with complete accuracy to the Conductor's direction. This achievement is even more remarkable when you realize that Woodworth had to substitute for Koussevitzky in the only complete rehearsal with the Orchestra...