Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROGRAM Magnificat in G Shutz The Childhood of Christ J. C. Bach The Messiah Handel...
There, parishioners found him a kindly, angular six-footer, who could play both Bach and boogie-woogie on the piano, and liked to give big coffee parties after church. He was also a man who could inspire faith whether in or out of the pulpit. Every Sunday before service, adults and children would flock to his classes at the church's school, and every Monday evening many would come back for more...
...Bach's Quintet in E flat for flute, oboe, violin, viola, and continuo concluded the program. The combination of woodwinds and strings resulted in some unique tonal effects, but the work itself seemed not worth the trouble...
Antonio Vivaldi had the misfortune of living at the same time as Bach and Handel: overshadowed by his contemporaries, he has never attained the popularity he deserves. Monday night's concert by the Cambridge Collegium Museum presented five examples of his many-sided talent--enough of a sample to make anyone want more...
...determination to present music the way it was played in Bach's own day, Erwin Bodky--conductor, harpsichordist, and co-founder of the group--has sacrificed much of the tonal richness which characterizes modern performances. Comparing the group's playing of the opening Triple Concerto with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance of the same work last May makes this fact obvious. The Collegium, by reducing the number of players from eighty to eight and by substituting a harpsichord for the piano, gave us a rendition which, although atmospheric, did not even come close to the Orchestra's full-bodied...