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Karajan conducted the first concert of the Vienna season, and from then on he and Furtwängler took turns. Whatever Karajan did, Furtwängler set out to do better. When Karajan played an 18th Century classical suite by Locatelli, Furtwängler followed with a Handel suite. When Karajan conducted Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Furtwängler played Tchaikovsky's Sixth...
...Woodworth made his first mistake when he selected his program. Handel's oratorio "L'Allegro" was the chief attraction. Instead of presenting all or most of the work, Woodworth elected to cut it down to less than half its original length and to devote the rest of the program to compositions by Randall Thompson '20. Granting Randall Thompson the right to performances by the Glee Club of his alma mater, one still wonders why such performances might not have been saved for some other occasion and "L'Allegro" given in a manner which did not make its music overshortened...
...ovatorio is a small work of Handel, but exceptionally lovely, especially in its word-coloration effects. That it did come through to the audience was a tribute to the finesse vocally and in diction of the combined choruses, the solid if unexciting virtues of bass soloist Paul Tibbetts, and the brilliant singing of Soprano Adele Addison...
Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...
...Peaceable Kingdom," which followed the very effective "Alleluia," presents interesting contrasts between the men's and women's voices. It has none of the precise word-coloring technique of the Handel work but creates an impressionistic mood ranging from a style resembling Renaissance Church music to modern syncopation. Its close, a complicated fugue which is resolved into a unison crescendo, was somewhat disappointing. The earlier black and white differentiation between the righteous and the wicked was lost in the final phrase, "the mountain of the Lord...