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...Lowell House Musical Society continued its excellent series of Sunday afternoon concerts yesterday with a piano recital by Lawrence Berman '56, one of the accompanists of the Harvard Glee Club...
...opening selection was programmed as Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Mr. Berman quickly informed his audience that it did not cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart...
...Berman possesses a temperament perfectly attuned to the unique expressive devices of the Romantic period. That his technique was adequate goes without question; and a technique "adequate" to the Chopin Andante Spianate and Grande Polonaise in E-Flat (Op.22) is already one so prodigious and accurate, that, after briefly marveling, we may look beyond and examine his strictly interpretive qualities. Of these I have only the slightest reservations: climaxes often arrive too abruptly, without the protracted preparation which alone can insure the unified sweep of a whole movement; while Mr. Berman achieves a power and fury in the climaxes which...
...lower voices chant monosyllables against a tenor melody, but the overall result often seemed too much like an M-G-M sound track. Choruses by Gilbert and Sullivan showed the Glee Club to best advantage. The all-important diction was perfectly clear and the piano accompaniment of Lawrence Berman '56 and William Lindahl '55 added to the zest of the singing...
...tradition in Russia was also emphasized by Harold J. Berman, professor of Law and specialist in the Russian legal system. In the light of this, Berman said, "it is plausible that Stalin during his lifetime attempted to provide for the succession of his power to one man, probably Malenkov, and assuming that there is not complete mistrust of Malenkov among the top leaders such as Molotov and Beria, I see no reason why a peaceful and orderly succession is not possible...