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...pianistcomposer had ever been as thoroughly recorded at so many key points in his life. From 1919, shortly after he fled Russia, until 1942, a year before his death in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 69, Rachmaninoff was a steady visitor to the recording studios. Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Liszt and, of course, Rachmaninoff-the music of these and other composers he committed to disc. Unfortunately, throughout most of the ensuing years, collectors have been denied a comprehensive accounting of this legacy; as soon as one new Rachmaninoff album was issued, another seemed to be deleted from the catalogue...
Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...
...Symphony points out much of what is good and bad in serious Victorian music. It is not and cannot be background music. There is so much sincere emotive material that it could never be left playing in the background like a string of Handel concerti grossi or even Bach trio sonatas. It demands closer attention. But the fruits of attention are often sparse (in contrast to the Bach trios!). Beautiful themes are exposed, but then lapse into less-than-profound filler. Huge crescendi too often come from and lead to nowhere. Basically, Victorian music could not cope with the olympian...
...dreamers had written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...
SYMPHONY HALL. Handel and Haydn Society. Bach: St. John Passion. Tickets: 266-1492. March...