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...spite of its name, however, the Orchestra showed little affinity for the performance of Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
Curious Public. The "prom" tradition goes back to the grand old days of Handel (1685-1759), but the London prom proper was just 60 years old last week. To celebrate the occasion, dapper Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent ("Flash Harry" to the trade) appeared before the crowd five minutes ahead of time. Bearing a laurel wreath, he strode purposefully to the bust of the late Sir Henry Wood, permanent prom conductor for its first half-century, and collared it. Promenaders cheered...
...concert will include selections by Berlioz, Brahms, Handel, and Rubenstein, and Choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan. According to the Weather Bureau, rain will not be included n the program...
...music which the Glee Club plans to sing includes works by Mozart, Bach, Handel, and such modern composers as Irving Fine and Henry Clark...
...recital itself, said Biggs, was "a sort of compromise program: Handel, because after all he's buried here, Bach, then Daquin and Soler [both 18th century] for the traditionalists, Hindemith, Jehan Alain, a young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie...