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...Like the delicately poised structure of a mighty cathedral is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Fittingly, his B Minor Mass was sung and played in magnificent St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan, by the Bach Cantata Club of New York. But the effect was diminished because the acoustics of churches in general, and of St. Thomas's in particular, are appalling...
...program follows: Concerto in D Minor, for Two Violins and Piano Bach M. H. Holmes '28, A. W. Lind '29, and F. W. Ramseyer 2G. Sonata for Piano Clair Leonard '23 F. W. Ramseyer 2G. Invocazione di Orfeo Jacopo Peri Corinth Edward Ballantine Die Mainacht Brahms D. A. Mackinnon 2G., and Edward Ballantine '97. Ballantine '97. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin Debussy Minstrels Voiles Jardins sous la Pluie Arthur Landers '28 Sonata in A Major, for pianoforte and violin Brahms Willis Fay and M. H. Holmes...
...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
...earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance . . . represents the work of three consecutive years...
...Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Wagner, Tschaikovsky, Strauss, etc., etc., were not Jews...