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...Mozart midnight concert was a good concert. Not great, and certainly not flawless, but with such a well-chosen program no orchestra could go too far wrong. By choosing such old chestnuts as "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the Haffner Symphony, Robert Hart Baker '74, the Bach Society's conductor, might well be accused of beating a dead warhorse, but his conducting style is so refreshing that it revitalizes even overly familiar works...
...clear. I could hear all six first violins, but they didn't sound like an ensemble. Poor dynamics and sluggish stickwork led to a serenade that started well but ended weakly. The last movement was ragged. The first violins showed a remarkable lack of attention to their conductor, which was too bad because Baker was definitely worth watching. Conducting the concert from memory, he displayed firstclass musicianship. His style is understated but strong, and though he is an extremely appealing conductor, he never overplays to his audience. If the overture was the highpoint, the serenade's rondo was the definite...
...orchestra did not always match his standard, though the blend between them was good. The cadenza, exciting and wellplayed, was marred by a lack of communication between the soloist and the orchestra, which came in either too late or too soon, creating about five seconds of confusion before soloist-conductor-orchestra communication was reestablished...
There he is, between reels of the late show on TV, popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called...
After she married Conductor-Pianist Daniel Barenboim in 1967, Jackie's active career became almost frenetic. When she and Daniel were not performing together, they were jetting off separately to tour on different continents, then rushing back home to London to be with each other. It did not seem all that unusual when Du Pré, in the summer of 1971, came down with what was described as nervous exhaustion and canceled all her concerts for the following season...