Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot often apply the term succes fou to the performance of an amatuer student orchestra; but that is precisely what the Bach Society enjoyed on Sunday, and deservedly so. It was an evening of memorable music-making, thanks to conductor Michael Senturia and his fine instrumentalists...
Robert M. Livingston: Kirkland; Band; Bach Soc. Orch.; House Music Comm.; House football; PBH committees...
Gyorgy Sandor should be first rate as he conquers Beethoven (Hammerklavier), Bartok (Bundles of international dances from all sorts of risque places), and Bach (Toccata and Fugue in D minor). Sunday at 3:00, in Sanders...
...first great exponent of a form that was to inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...concerto form reached its greatest complexity in the music of J.S. Bach, who was well grounded on the Italian Masters before inserting his peculiar inventiveness. The concerto for two keyboards and orchestra was a favorite of his, and the C Major Concerto is one of his loveliest works. It is played with great finesse by Clara Haskil (who created a sensation with the Boston Symphony this fall) and Geza Anda. (Angle...