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Recitals are again more a matter of quantity than quality: Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach cycles are being given concurrently this month by the young musicians. The big sensation of the past month was the arrival of Claudio Arrau. Billed, by a quote from the Boston Herald, as the "greatest pianist of our time," the Chilean virtuoso almost lived up to the title. Between masterful performance of the G major and E flat Beethoven concerti, he gave an immensely successful recital highlighted by magnificent performances of the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Brahms Variations on a theme by Pagannini...
...Bach: Arias (Marian Anderson, contralto, with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides). The mighty-voiced contralto, holding herself down to a small orchestra, is not at her best. Included are arias from three cantatas, the Christmas Oratorio and the Passion According to St. Matthew. Performance: fair...
...technical "accidents" because "accidents are very important. They can result in some damn good works. And a 'loose' amateur can sometimes have one." As in writing, he begins not with a mental image but with an idea. "Last week," Odets explains, "I heard a piece by Bach called Sheep May Safely Graze, so I painted a picture showing sheep safely grazing. It's as simple as that...
...this evening in Kirkland House. Subsequent, informal, after-dinner concerts will be presented for the pleasure of House members on the average of three times a week through February, March and April. The Club also plans to present talks by well-known composers, play student works, and give a Bach festival concert group in March...
...Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break...