Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirited performance of Bach's Suite #3 opened the second season of the Bach Society Orchestra Sunday night. started last year by the zeal of conductor Michael Greenebaum '55 and the sponsoring Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club, the orchestra's first function has been to present Bach's cantatas, suites, and concerti in capable performances. On Sunday night guest conductor Landon Young '58 successfully avoided the two major pitfalls which face the conductor of Bach: the performance was neither Romantic nor pedantic in approach, although it did lack polish...
...Bach Society proved itself equally adept at the Romantic idiom with a flawless performance of Brahms' Screnade in D, a work written very early in the composer's career. The Serenade has a very pleasant pastoral character, using four French horns, but suffers from extreme lengthiness. Backed by such first chair palyers as flutist Cynthia Crain and cellist Stephen McGhee, conductor Greene baum exacted a virtuoso performance from the orchestra. It is a pleasure to have a local group with the ambition and the prowess of the Bach Society...
...jubiliation that followed Lingel-bach's kick was not shared by coach Munro after the game. "In only one game this season were we the first team to score," he said. Yesterday Tech took the lead at 5:43 of the first quarter, and remained ahead until mid-way through the third period...
Although J. S. Bach did not indicate the instrumentation for his monumental Art of the Fugue, he would no doubt have been surprised to hear his opening fugue played by two trumpets, French horn, euphonium, trombone, and sousaphone. More appropriate to the group, and receiving a better performance, was a group of pieces by Johann Pezel, an early German composer of brass music for town bands. Although it was a pleasure to hear these seldom performed works, the group played with more gusto than polish...
...Bach: Toccata in D Minor (E. Power Biggs; Columbia). An organ tour of Europe in which- Organist Biggs plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...