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...difference between piano and harpsichord is more than one of degree. It is very nearly one of opposites. The piano's strings are struck by a hammer; those of the harpsichord are plucked. When played in combination with a piano, Bach and Mozart violin sonatas can be brilliant, noble, dramatic, tender, melodically beautiful--but they can never express the intimacy that should characterize classical chamber music. When played by harpsichord and violin, this intimacy is never lost. The two instruments blend into each other almost as if they were one; and the music seems to become a part...
Ralph Kirkpatrick and Alexander Schneider, harpsichord-violin due, offered the first in their series of three free concerts last night in Sanders Theatre. Tonight's program, made up entirely of works of Bach, will continue the series, which will conclude tomorrow evening. Concerts start at 8:15 o'clock and are open to the public without tickets...
Charles Edward Ives is a composer U.S. musicians like to talk about-but seldom get to hear. Much of his diffuse, polytonal music is as difficult as trying to play a Bach fugue on a musical saw-and often as strange to listen to. But last week, in Boston, 73-year-old Composer Ives had his innings...
Soloist with the Club will include Olga Averino, Boston soprano, and pupils Calliope Shenas, contralto, and baritone Paul Tibbetts '45. "There is nothing else like it," continued Professor Fine, who has been at the Club helm since 1946 and last year conducted its Bach concert in an unofficial capacity...
...Club concentrates on contemporary music, presenting concerts in the Houses and one big choral concert a year. Last year, the Club offered several Bach pieces never heard in this area before...