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With ups and downs, Alfred Nash Patterson and his ambitious Polyphonic Choir of Christ Church have been presenting rarely sung sacred music. Such a group is much needed in a community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
Wednesday night in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presented the second in its spring term series of free concerts. In a program which was too long and too varied, no one would have missed the Beethoven March, nor did the somewhat uninspired rendition of Mozart's Sonata in D Major justify its inclusion. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro showed their grasp of the nineteenth century, however, in Schubert's Eight Variations, which predicted the styles of his successors with remarkable accuracy...
...play the magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy-had the same soaring quality, the same mastery of style, technical finish and complete naturalness of phrasing...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beginning six weeks of Beethoven Conductor: Bruno Walter...
Karl Kohn, piano, and Robert Ritzenheim, violin, will give a concert of violin sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, and Faure in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room tomorrow. The performance, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin...