Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England Conservatory Concert Choir is doing a striking program: the Boston premiere of Nuits by Xenakis and the world premiere of a Peyton piece. The "standard" works are cantatas one and three from Bach's Christmas Oratorio...
Harvard Band. The same Harvard Band that performs unnatural acts on the football field also has an excellent concert organization. This Saturday, they are playing Walter Piston's Tunbridge Fair in honor of the composer's eightieth birthday. They also will have saxophonist Donald Sinta as a guest soloist in pieces by Benson and Whitney. But I'd really like to hear the Bach C Minor Passacaglia transcription...
HARVARD's musicians and concert-goers are raving about Yo-Yo Ma, guest cellist with the Bach Society Saturday night. He is, no doubt, the most phenomenal soloist who has played at Harvard this year, and Janos Starker was certainly no small event. Yo-Yo's performance of the Haydn D Major Cello Concerto surpassed anyone's imagination of the piece. The best way to summarize his performance would be to say that it was Yo-Yo, and that Yo-Yo can be compared to no one in the world...
Wisely, conductor Robert H. Baker chose to end the concert with the Concerto instead of Haydn's 99th Symphony in E flat. The audience held its breath through Yo-Yo's first solo, a vibrant restatement of the quiet opening theme. It was perfect, and a wave of excitement swept through the auditorium as he ended the first phrase...
...spite of these weaknesses the concert was an immense success. As long as the Bach Society continues to feature soloists like the ones Saturday evening, Sanders will be sold out, and the Bach Society concerts will be enjoyable and worthwhile...