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Considering its enormous turnover of personnel, not to mention the acquiring of a new conductor, the Bach Society Orchestra performed surprisingly well last night in its first concert of the season. Unfortunately, the group has an almost Olympian reputation and it will take a long period of hard work and playing together before they can meet the standards of past years...
...conductor is John Harbison '60, a former violinist and trombonist in the orchestra. Harbison is an excellent musician, and when he and the orchestra gain more rapport with each other, as they did only occasionally last night, many of the minor imperfections of the first concert will disappear. He needs much more assurance, and is at present far too restrained, especially in making sudden contrasts and shaping phrases...
Gerryflappers. For a seven-year period, inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop...
...conductor of the Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble, who records frequently for Mercury Records, Frederick Fennell, was on hand to discuss the new recording techniques and describe their value in developing the appreciation of music in America through the electronic marvels that were on display...
...Leonine Conductor Leonard Bernstein...