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...already members of the Harvard, Radcliffe, or Wellesley College Orchestra are requested to bring their instruments to the registration. A number of string and wind instruments will also be available without charge to students not owning their own. Planists will be given an opportunity to play in the clavier concerti of Bach or the continue parts of various eighteenth-century composers...
Included in Mr. Kirkpatrick's program will be two concerti, one in F minor and the other in E major...
...next important concert will be given on March 20, when Ralph L. Kirkpatrick '30, one of America's foremost harpsichord artists, will play two concerti by Bach in F Minor and C Major...
...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...
...lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than he should, sentimentalized the second, was too slow in the third and was superb in the fourth. The concert ended with the Tannhauser overture as usual...