Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
Cast Iron & Silver. Bored with string quartets and big orchestras, Barshai set out to build an 18th century chamber orchestra that he hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...
...married to a Wellesley girl, in real life works for the International Division of a Boston bank. He is actually features editor and chief idea man of Forum: the editors-in-cheif Robert C. Dumont and John C. Scully, are former presidents of the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the publication...
Forum was published twice last year as a Junior Chamber news-letter, but it has been revamped by Daniels and others who believe Boston has both vast personnel and institutional resources, and grave problems that must be faced. In addition, the city press has an astounding capacity for misrepresentation and misjudgment...
There are still problems with Forum, especially financial ones, and the relationship with the Junior Chamber is tenuous. But Forum is a worthy addition to the often brutal world of little, penurious magazines. The next issue sounds highly promising. It will be centered on the problem of urban renewal, and include articles on the architectural, administrative, and social questions involved in the New Sterile Boston's redevelopment...