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...Theatre tomorrow night and is presenting a highly interesting program. Roussel's fine Third Symphony is to be repeated from last week's concerts, and Sibelius's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor is also to be played with Orrea Pernel as soloist. In addition, Philip Emanuel Bach's Concerto in D major for Stringed Instruments (arranged by Steinberg) and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" will be heard...
With 60% of its business outside Manhattan, Musicraft sales this month were twice those of July, four times those of February. A rare Bach secular cantata called The Coffee Cantata proved so popular when released last month that Victor soon came out with a secular cantata of its own, Peasant Cantata. Last week's chief Musicraft offering was two of Bach's Trio Sonatas for Organ, played by Organist Carl Weinrich on the Westminster Choir School organ in Princeton...
Most organ records are bad, and to purists Bach sounds too thick, too soft, when played on an organ built, as most modern organs are, on 19th Century lines. According to Musicraftsman Adler, the clean, transparent tone of the Trio Sonatas derives from the 17th Century-style engineering of the Westminster organ (built by Aeolian-Skinner and equaled in "baroque" tone only by the organs of Wellesley College and the Germanic Museum at Harvard...
...teacher of the history and appreciation of music at Brooklyn College, launched Gamut Records last June. By last week some three dozen dealers (mostly in Manhattan) were handling Gamut discs. Music Lover Wolfert does his own choosing of records and directing. Best Gamut record to date is a Bach Partita, one of 19 keyboard collections of the prolific German, played on the harpsichord by Dr. Wolff...
...Power Biggs, Organist of the Harvard Church, Brookline, will give 12 recitals covering the complete organ literature of Johann Sebastian Bach on the Classic organ in the Romanesque Hall of the German Museum...