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Whoever said that strength comes with numbers would have been completely wrong about the Bach Society Orchestra (BSO). Although small in number, Bach Soc proved to be a valiant orchestra with its rich tones reverberating throughout Paine Hall last Saturday. Along with guest soloist Jonathan Russell '00, the chamber orchestra treated the audience to a delightful performance...
Eric Tipler '99, conductor of the BSO, communicated with the orchestra and Russell so skillfully that not only was Russell presented as a guest soloist, but during the interludes, the Bach Soc seemed a soloist by itself. Ever so delicately, Russell and the orchestra started the Adagio, the orchestra gently backing up Russell's beautifully fragile tone. A soul's love song, the Adagio, became Russell's song, putting heartfelt emotion into each note as he rocked gently back and forth to the music. What was most beautiful about this movement was the way in which Russell sustained the upper...
...Bach Society Orchestra (BSO) has also hadto modify its goals due to financial restrictions...
...daughter and presented to her on her eighth birthday in 1952. In the pre-concert lecture, Harvard professor John Stewart illuminated, a la First Nights, the history of Dallapiccola's career and discussed points of interest like the Simbolo, a four-note theme derived from the letters in "Bach." As concertmistress Stephanie Misono turned the pages of his score, Hodgkinson breezed through the simplistic Simbolo and the succeeding variations, all the while displaying the technical precision that helped him win the International Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation in 1981. Even more impressive was the lyricism...
...Messiah every year since 1854. If last Sunday's rendition of Handel's 1753 version of Messiah is any indication, the H&H has not let its great musical heritage go to waste, nor has it lost the superb judgement which brought the American debuts of such standards as Bach's Mass in B Minor and St. Matthew Passion and Handel's great oratorios Messiah, Samson, Solomon and Israel in Egypt...