Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot Chamber Players Friday night in the House Library presented an evening musicale that was surprisingly good. The room and the size of the performing group were ideal for the program consisting of Bach and Vivaldi. The only factor to mar the eighteenth century aspect was the number of people almost hanging from the book shelves listening...
...Bach: The Art of the Fugue (the Radio Orchestra, Beromunster, Switzerland, Herman Scherchen conducting; London FFRR, 6 sides LP). Bach died before he finished this last testament, and before he had noted down just what instrument or instruments should play it. Hence it is variously performed on the organ, by string quartet, and, as here, by a small orchestra. This performance is clear and calm, but short of vitality and vigor. Recording: excellent...
Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...
...success of the Adams House program should give a boost to other House musical societies planning similar programs. This week Eliot presents some Bach as originally scored, substituting recorders for modern flutes...
...April 5 the tour will return to Cambridge and practice Bach's "St. John Passion," a work which was composed 100 years after Shutz's opue. The groups will sing the Bach Passion with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday, April...