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...Last week both Klemperer and Los Angeles appeared to have found what they wanted. Klemperer, 48, so tall (6 ft. 4 in.) that he uses no podium, gave stirring vitality to Bach, Stravinsky, Beethoven. He was as exciting to watch as the music he made, quivering his left hand like a violinist until he got the volume he wanted, rocking back and forth for a gentle andante, jerking his head so violently for climaxes that his glasses kept sliding down his nose. Mr. Clark admires Klemperer so much that he hurried back from Europe for last week's concert...
...revere him the way Elman and Heifetz revere the late great Leopold Auer.* Criticized for having no show pieces on his programs, Auer once remarked that he left all those to his pupils. Schnabel's pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven. Says he: "Of course, contemporary music should be heard and if there were no one else to play it, I would do so myself. But the opposite is the case. The demand for first performances has meant that many works are born and buried at the same...
...came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock finished off with a mild dash of Stravinsky...
...Glee Club announced yesterday that a concert is to be held in Sanders Theatre November 24, the night before the Yale football game. Quartet trials are to be held the first week in November, while in March or April the club will sing the Bach Mass in B-Minor, in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...spring trip will be taken as before with the New York concert to be held in Town Hall on April 7. In the traditional spring concert with the Boston Symphony, the club will restore to its program a favorite not sung last year, the B Minor Mass from Bach...