Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Friday Concert, given last night in the Fogg Museum Courtyard, was superbly planned to express the spirit and significance of the religious season. The principal work was the oratorio The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After...
...Club. At Harvard ('17), Sam turned his musical talent into Hasty Pudding shows-tunes by Sears, words by Robert Sherwood. The pair worked in a musty office, where young Sherwood hung his portrait among those of the great poets, while Sam's was flanked by pictures of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Sam can still pound out lively barroom piano music, but with maturity, he has acquired a greater fancy for collecting old cars and gold toothpicks...
Even more significant as an indication of his stature was the remainder of the program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another...
...Sweeney took over the Guggenheim 18 months ago, it was a cultish temple of nonobjective art. Its paintings were mainly second-rate German abstractions which looked like the products of a well-sterilized laboratory. Enclosed in fat, silvered frames, they hung in an atmosphere of pearl-grey carpets and Bach suites dripping from hidden amplifiers. Sweeney changed all that. He found the storerooms filled with first-rate works by modern Europeans from Bonnard to Vuillard, hung them in brilliantly arranged rotating shows. The Guggenheim's walls are now sparkling white; there are few distracting frames and the pictures hang...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 6 p.m., CBS). All Bach program...