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SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO the Bach Society was 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...
...Arctic Chamber Orchestra
...appreciated hearing the Seattle Symphony [April 24], even if its public utterances were condescending: "Alaskans are the most unsophisticated audiences in the world." I would like to point out that the Arctic Chamber Orchestra was in most of those places in the past two years, playing Bach and Mozart. We have given orchestral concerts in 17 different towns and villages, traveling over 7,000 miles in a DC-3. Other ensembles from the University of Alaska have played in villages the Seattle people never heard of. The Seattle Symphony is welcome back any time, but don't patronize...
...play host to both party conventions. The city is not exactly ecstatic over the honor. Only some vestige of civic duty (and whiff of profit) carried the motion in the city council by a scant 4-3 vote to invite the Republicans. The loyal opposition included the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Relations Board, who fear a seven-week encampment of antiwar protesters spanning the time from the Democratic opening on July 10 to the scheduled Republican closing...
...Informal Chamber Group Concerts. Loeb West Lobby. 4:30, May 11. Free...