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...message is simple: The Bach Society is good this year. Last weekend the orchestra, conducted by Robert Hart Baker, gave an excellent performance of the Bach Suite No. 3 in D, a credible performance of the Haydn "Clock" Symphony, and an exceptional performance of the Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. Bach: Suite #3; Haydn: Symphony #101, and Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (Hugh Wolff,scott). Tickets: $1. Saturday, October...
...snobbish attention to one kind of music to the exclusion of all others is something peculiar to our own times," he says. "In the 16th century, Palestrina used street songs in his Masses. Mozart and Beethoven wrote both classical and 'pop' music, and Bartok used the folk music of Hungary to build impressive symphonic works. The snobbism works both ways," he adds. "There are Rolling Stones freaks who won't listen to anything else either...
...Brussels and Zurich, I would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...
Equally pointless is Miloš Forman's cutting between decathlon competitors and various musical activities that he found in and around the Games, from Bavarian bell ringing to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth. The decathlon is something more than the hot pursuit of exhaustion, and so, perhaps, is bell ringing, if that is where one's heart lies. As for John Schlesinger's back-and-forthing between a losing British marathon competitor and the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists, it is a tasteless last-minute paste...