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...Wartime shows to date include: drawings (by Robert Bach) of the attack on Bellows Field, Hawaiian quilts, ventilators for blackouts-an exhibition which the Academy insists "esthetically, practically, and from the point of view of public interest . . . completely justifies itself...
Presented on the program were "To Three Alone, O Lord," by Bach, choruses from the "Yeomen of the Guard," by Sullivan, songs from the "Beggars Opera," by Gay and Pepusch, and also a Mozart canon. After the presentation of these pieces and a medley of Harvard tunes by the band, students mounted the steps beside the Glee Club and joined them in singing Harvard songs. The concert ended with the singing of "Fair Harvard...
...himself, developing consistently and systematically in one style. Too much knowledge of other men's music often results in the musical hash you find occasionally in Mahler, who anticipated T. S. Eliot's patchwork technique in this respect. A conductor, however, has to "get inside" a Bach or Debussy, and to interpret a number of radically different styles in the spirit in which they were used. Stokowski, always the actor, can't restrain himself from making self-revealing comments in program notes and short speeches. Last winter he announced a Bach work about to be played as "an inspired inspiration...
Outstanding on the program is "The Defense of Corinth" by Eliot Carter '30, which was first presented this year. Other selections include the "Prisoners' Chorus From Fidelio" by Beethoven, a Bach Chorale, a Mozart canon, a Czechoslovakian folk song by Dvorak, and songs by Lotti, Brahms, Gay and Pepusch, Offenbach and Sullivan...
...those who like dramatic orchestral readings of Bach organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...