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...Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Pathetique. Symphony, Piano Concerto No. 1; Brahms's Piano Concerto No.. 2 in B Flat; Cesar Franck's lone symphony (no Bach, no Mozart...
...ordinary carols were presented at Gardner Museum, in Boston, Sunday, and last night at Memorial Church in the Yard. They will be repeated this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and this evening at 8:15. Included in the program are some Bach choral preludes, the Pastoral Symphony from Handel's Messlah, and old French, German, and English carols...
Since its first performance at Dublin in 1742, Handel's "Messiah," although recognized as one of the greatest pieces of church music, has, only through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...Bach: Goldberg Variations (Wanda Landowska; Victor, 12 sides). The Polish harpsichordist hovers gracefully over 18th-Century drawing-room music. Performance: excellent...
Color is perhaps Henri Matisse's chief claim to fame-he paints with colors that are as loud as a Marine band, as subtly harmonious as a Bach cantata. But "what counts most in a picture," says 76-year-old Matisse, "is drawing and composition." Last week 22 of his black-&-white pen-&-pencil drawings went on view at the Manhattan gallery of his son, Pierre Matisse. It was the first show to come out of France since the war, and it revealed the French master at his joyful best...