Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Sogg '52, stole the show in the first B.S.O. performance of Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune. This is the same work that created such a tremendous impression when played by Harvard and Radcliffe musicians in Sanders Theatre last month. Sogg handled the pyrotechnics of the piano part with understanding and showmanship. He didn't sound quite as exciting as he did last month, but that might have been due to the more vital orchestral accompaniment, or to the less brilliant tone of the Baldwin piano. The Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard Glee Club were perfect...
...closing work, a stupendous Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune for piano, chorus, and orchestra, should quiet once and for all those critics who call Vaughan's Williams' music austere. This is virtuoso piece with colorful orchestral effects and dramatic abandon for all concerned. The performers, supposedly the largest assemblage of musicians in Sanders Theatre's history, sounded truly jubilant. The final "Prayse ye the Lorde's name," sung fortissimo with cymbals and brass blaring in the orchestra, drew cheers even before the theatre had stopped reverberating. Richard Sogg '52, deserves special credit for his energetic playing...
...course, the concert was not perfect. Any undertaking of such scope is bound to have minor flaws. Some of the soloists in the "Serenade to Music" were barely audible; the attacks in the "Fantasia" were not always as precise as they should have been. Still, there were enough outstanding moments to make the Vaughan Williams Concert one that will be remembered for a long time...
...Fantasia, Walt Disney's three Academy Award winner, is a great technicolor fable at the Kenmore...
Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor (Gyorgy Sandor, pianist; Columbia, 1 side LP). Hungarian Pianist Sandor gives this astonishing and unequaled invention of Bach's a thorough doing, but occasionally adds a Chopinesque flavoring of his own. Recording: good...