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...classicists who have been played have been badly man-handled. In all kindness, Spalding is just too old to handle the intricate rhythmical phraseology of Bach. And last Saturday, Koussevitzky gave a surprisingly careless and thoughtless performance of the Mozart Symphony in D Major ("Paris"). There was vehement distortion of dynamic effect in both Allegros; the Andantino last continuity through the effort to make it pretty...
Thus far, there has been one brilliant program: the contrast of the great intellectual classicist, Bach, and the great intellectual romantic, Berlioz. But, on another night, the audience was subjected to a double dose of Sibelfus, with a new Martina symphony thrown in; last Saturday the orchestra would up its program with Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, and broadcast...
...vibrations above the century-old tuning fork of George Handel. Then at the Congress of Vienna, military bands discovered that by raising the pitch of their instruments they could ring out sharper fortissimi during the day and crisper waltzes at night. By 1846 the London Philharmonic was trilling Bach fugues after tuning to an oboe A of 905 vibrations. In 19th-Century U.S., where overheated concert halls dried out the instruments, the pitch rose also...
Brown, bosomy Hazel Scott attained fame by changing Bach's stately counter-point into boogie-woogie at Manhattan's Café Society Uptown. Last week Pianist Scott considerably enhanced her fame and earning power by not changing the stately D.A.R...
...Bach: Concerto in D Minor for two violins and orchestra (Adolf Busch Chamber Players; Columbia, 4 sides). The music to which Ballet Russe dances its new Concerto Barocco. Performance: competent but not exciting...