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Antonio Vivaldi had the misfortune of living at the same time as Bach and Handel: overshadowed by his contemporaries, he has never attained the popularity he deserves. Monday night's concert by the Cambridge Collegium Museum presented five examples of his many-sided talent--enough of a sample to make anyone want more...
...Pierian Sodality will hold an open sight reading session in Sanders Theatre at 7:15 p.m. tonight to which all amateur musicians are invited. Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will conduct Mendelsohn's He brides Overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Handel's Water Music...
...Handel-Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). A somewhat colorless concerto grosso (Op. 6, No. 7) is brought to surprising life. Schoenberg expanded and enriched it with some sonorities Handel never dreamed of, but retained enough Handel to pacify any startled classicists. Performance and recording: good...
...enthusiastic audience of 500 heard. Delaney's work as the central piece in a program of choral music. Other works included Cantatas No. 61 and 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Choruses from Jephtha" by Geroge Frederick Handel, Two Cantiones Cacrae by J. P. Sweelinck, and The Last Words of David by Randall Thompson...
...program includes two Bach cantatas, two choruses from Handel's Jeptha, and some sacred songs by Sweelinch...