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There was Bach and Handel on the program, but the Bach came out of a mouth organ, and the Handel was background for the clickety-clicks of a tap dancer. This recital in Philadelphia last week was given by Harmonicist Larry Adler, a young man who resembles Eddie Cantor, and Tap Dancer Paul Draper, who looks like a blonder Franchot Tone. They had deserted the nightclubs for a joint concert tour...
Selections from Bach, Beethoven, Palestrina, Cimaroa, Morley, Delaney, and Szostakowicz will be included in the program. Choral and orchestral numbers will precede the feature pieces in which both groups will perform together. The performance is open to the public...
Stokowski was his own commentator, introducing each number in his faintly foreign lisp. Of his Bach prelude he said: "An inspired inspiration." He had reseated the orchestra, turning trombones and woodwinds away from the audience, had added a few instrumental touches to the Third Symphony of Brahms-like an actor rewriting Shakespeare. The Brahms heaved and wallowed luxuriantly, the orchestra following Stokowski's erratic beat as best it could...
...Bach: The Art of Fugue (E. Power Biggs, organist; Victor; 20 sides; $11). Like the late Ring Lardner (How to Write Short Stories), J. S. Bach demonstrated by doing. The Art of Fugue, his last great work, consists of 14 increasingly complex fugues on the same basic subject. Organist Biggs plays them soberly, soundly on Harvard University's limpid-toned "baroque" organ...
...main Cambridge concert of the year, the Pierian Sodality will join with the Princeton Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society for a concert on March 15 in Sanders Tehatre. The program is tentatively scheduled to consistentirely of Bach...