Word: handel
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...violins for victory, Durante acts as manager of the outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler with his harmonica...
Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel's Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their playing. They were, in fact, a hardworking group of Philadelphia professionals, called the American Society of the Ancient Instruments, and last week they were giving their 17th annual festival in the University of Pennsylvania's little cream-brick Museum auditorium...
Harvard's portion of the program featured two madrigals by Gastoldi and choruses from "Patience," by Gillbert and Sullivan. After several offerings by the Smith Glee Club, the two groups combined to sing three pieces by Hindemith and a selection from Handel's "Solomon." There was a dance after the performance...
...bassoon what a double bass (bass viol) is to the cello. In its long evolution since Handel wrote for it, it has changed from a vague resemblance to a child's coffin to a strong resemblance to an overcomplicated vacuum cleaner. Its 20-odd feet of wooden tubing are capable of emitting the lowest-sounds known to orchestral music-lower than any at the left end of a piano keyboard. To everybody but a contrabassoonist, its Stygian burps sound like abysmal Bronx cheers...
...symphonic composers, from Handel to Richard Strauss, have rated the contrabassoon highly, using it to fill in the substructures of massive harmonies. In compositions like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, it is even given short, snorting solos. These passages are practiced by contrabassoonists with all the loving devotion that violinists give to the most exquisite concertos...