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Next Sunday and Monday, April 26 and 27, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky is to conduct two performances of Bach's renowned St. Matthew Passion, with the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and six noted soloists filling the respective parts. The work is of unusual length, and, as with the Mass in B minor, will be given in two sections, one in the afternoon and one in the evening of each of the two days. Both performances will take place at Symphony Hall in Boston...
...that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses. The choice of these fell to Bach, and it is just in the insertion of these choral strophes that the full depth of Bach's poetic sense is revealed. It would be impossible to find, in the whole of the hymns of the Christian church, a verse better fitted to its particular purpose than the one Bach...
...Glee Club's offering at the concerts will be Bach's monumental "St. Matthew's Passion," a work which is so long that it is always split into two parts, the first of which is sung before dinner. Refreshed, the Club will then return to complete the second two hour section of Bach's magnum opus...
Beaming acknowledgment of the applause, 24-year-old Alec Templeton, blind Briton, performed one of the tricks which many in the audience had primarily come to witness. He asked Conductor Sundstrom to name five notes, which he swiftly contrived into a theme with variations in the manner of Bach, Mozart, Chopin...
...Yankee Doodle and Old Black Joe simultaneously when his stooges in the audience suggest the titles. Alec Templeton impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry of the Chicago Tribune by making a perfectly good...