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This is a good week for open sight-readings. The Band will be doing the noisy little Outdoor Overture of Copland. For those left-out string players, the Dunster House Brandenburg Party is good chance to play. There have been times when huge wind and brass choirs have been complemented by tiny string sections. One occasion in particular remains in mind when a desperation call was put through to Bob Coyne to hustle down from Radcliffe with his cello so someone would be there to play the bass line...
...organized to perforn chamber music primarily of the eighteenth century. Over the years their emphasis and preference have drifted to other styles. Last Sunday afternoon they showed themselves to be best at the music for which they were originally formed. The closing work of their program, the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, is often considered the finest example of concerto grosso writing. More often than not, its balance of concertino and ripieno forces is distorted to the point that the harpsichord and flute are never heard, the oboe, rarely, and the trumpet always...
...Second Brandenburg used to be done as something of a trumpet concerto. Mercifully, this custom has passed; but the instrument's construction--producing a high, searing tone--give the trumpet a dominant role in the piece. Playing the piccolo trumpet. Robert Hazen noticeably tired in the final allegro, missing some high notes altogether and parts from sixteenth-note sequences. In the first movement, though, he was in much better from with a beautifully quiet tone that blended well with flute, oboe, and strings. peter Weiss played oboe unevenly: he was not sensitive to the dynamics of the other players...
...Wolf" narrated by President Bok, but that tidbit seems to have died a quiet death. Their program fittingly enough includes Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." The Bach Society Orchestra has promised its full cooperation in a concert in Lowell House Dining Room, ending its season with Bach's "Second Brandenburg Concerto...
Isolated Field. The East Germans have their own small exclaves in West Berlin. There is, for instance, a triangular field between the Brandenburg Gate and West Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra building that is cut off from East Berlin by the Wall. Correcting some of the problems would require the East Germans to move several sections of the Wall. Still, the secret negotiations made possible by the Big Four agreement offer hope that one day soon Eiskeller farmers will have electricity and Steinstuckeners will no longer have to spend three days acquiring permits to transport a piece of new furniture...