Word: bache
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Newest member of the University's musical family--already numbering band, glee club, and the Pierish Sodality's full scale orchestra about its fireside--the Bach Choir will make its debut as part of a concert by the Music Club's chamber orchestra Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...
Dunn laid his first plans for the group back in October of last year and since then has built up a repertoire of three complete cantatas. "We have not attempted any of Bach's masses or oratories," says Dunn, "and probably will leave them for larger and more professional choruses." With 213 of the cantatas still untouched, the organization has no fears for its future...
...first piece to be sung publicly by the choir will be "Come, Thou Lovely Hour of Dying," Bach's one hundred sixty-first cantata. Geraldine Viti, formerly an alto with the San Francisco Opera Company, will journey up from New York City to do sole work in Saturday's concert along with George A. Maran...
...chamber orchestra closely approximates in size the orchestra for which Bach originally wrote. Saturday's performance will feature the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, with David Allen of Boston at the piano, Clarence Taylor '49 on the flute, and Sarah Cunningham 1G of Radcliffe on the violin...
Also on the program are Bach's Concerto in C Major for two pianos, played by Douglas P. Allanbrook '48 and Paul E. des Marais '49, and his concerto in D Minor for two violins, handled by Maxwell M. Harvey '44 and Robert F. Ritzenhein 2G, as well as the Bach Choir's rendition of Cantata Number...