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...lady at the Yard Concert last night that the cadenees of Allegri's "Mjserero" were well-defined, she said "cadence, shmadence," so we let it go at that. In addition to this work, the Glee Club sang three canons of Mozart, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" by J. S. Bach, and selections of Paine, Webbe, Allegri, Gastoldi, and Piston, all of them with precision and clearness, but they were partly wasted in the Yard, where acoustics are conspicuous by their absence...
...while the Band was temporarily in second place, its performance was by no means second-rate. There can be no denying that it does its best on band music from Sousa on down; somehow the effect of sixty ponderous brasses proclaiming Bach chorales seems a little foreign. The same situation in reverse came up several years ago when the Boston Symphony recorded "stars and Stripes Forover" and did a creditable job but might better have left such undertakings to the Harvard Band. To do long-hair (and that portion of the program was not limited to Bach) in such fine...
...periodic intervals there have been little out bursts in these columns about the marauding vagaries of Serge Koussevitzky. There have been complaints, often justified, about thin Mozart tones being swollen into Lisztian voluptuousness, about batteries of double basses grinding out Bach fugues, about programs of Morton Gould and Samuel Barber. But, instead of picking our noses to find something to grumble about, let us realize that Serge Koussevitzky is a very fine conductor, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society is a very fine choral group, the Boston Symphony is a superb orchestra, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
...doorman was right. Manhattan concertgoers, to whom child prodigies were no novelty, were wild about Ervin Laszlo. His flashing performance of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy might have made any of his elders envious. Second-chair critics, who attend dozens of recitals a year and stoically put up with a lot of willing but perfunctory performers, found themselves using first-chair words of praise. "One searches his memory in vain," wrote the New York Times's Noel Straus, "for another so richly endowed with all of the factors that make for extraordinary and completely satisfying piano playing...
...Beinum, a man who likes his Bartók as well as his Bach, doesn't let the famous orchestra show its years in its programming. The Concertgebouw gives contemporary Dutch and U.S. composers frequent hearings; last month, it brought out the first recording of a concert suite from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME, April...