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...have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program, the Beethoven Ninth or "Choral" symphony, which is religious in feeling even though it uses Schiller's "Ode to Joy" as a text, and the Bach "Magnificat...
...Bach "Magnificat" is a series of alternating choruses and solos, set to the words of the Virgin Mary's prayer. Except for the lovely "Suscepit Israel" there is nothing particularly virginal about the choruses which include some of the most powerful Bach outside of the B Minor Mass...
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D Minor (Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky ; Victor; 3 sides). Eleventh, and most familiar, of the dozen "harmonious raptures" of the red-bearded Venetian priest whose music Bach so often transcribed, recorded (before Boss Petrillo's ban) by the Boston Symphony's matchless strings, with some woodwind help...
...concert had all the ingredients of a prosaic, academic affair, but the result was anything but stuffy. Three of Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous Brandenburg concertos were to be played by a small body of musicians (such an orchestra as Bach had in mind), with scrupulous regard for the composer's intentions (as deduced from a study of Bach manuscripts), without a conductor (as it would have been played in Bach's day). After Adolf Busch had put his Chamber Music Players through their paces last week in Manhattan's Town Hall-in their first...
First scheduled concert is this Saturday night at Princeton, where the Orchestra, in conjunction with the Princeton Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, will present an all-Bach program...