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Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...
...black hotheads on the fringes keep muttering, "Throw the whites out," and African politicos spend far too much time bickering or jockeying for power. It will be some time before the growing black middle class develops a sense of responsibility, as the head of the Kenya African Chamber of Commerce and Industry admits. In an angry letter chiding his members for misusing government loans and grants, he wrote: "You are undermining our efforts by not using this money to develop your businesses. That's what the money has been loaned to you for-not just for buying more wives...
...crazy, she is fascinating. Just for kicks she dresses up like a bum, smears on a charcoal mustache, goes tramping along the Boul' Mich in broad daylight. She keeps her love letters in a chamber...
Besides the symposium, the Arts Festival includes a jazz concert tomorrow afternoon and a chamber music recital in Holmes Hall on Sunday afternoon...
...Societe Musicale Independante de Paris presented a concert of chamber music by students of Boulanger. In retrospect, the collection of names on the program is a bit fantastic: Copland, Thomson, Elwell, Antheil, Chanler, Piston (whom Time incidentally, then labelled a "rip-roaring cacaphonist...