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...Cambridge Society for Early Music concluded its highly successful series of three concerts last Monday with a program devoted to instrumental works by Corelli and Handel. One again, the series filled Sanders Theatre, plainly showing this area's enthusiasm for the music of Handel, Bach, and their predecessors. In fact, this is the sixth Cambridge concert in about as many weeks wholly devoted to music composed before 1759. I sometimes wonder if some daring artist could be found to venture a local program including Schubert, Franck, or Dvorak...
...outstanding in the choice of the music, the authenticity of the performance style, and the general excellence of the performances. Monday's program consisted chiefly of four concertigrossi...two by Corelli, the composer who crystallized the concerto grosso form near the end of the 17 century, and two by Handel who with Bach brought the form to its highest development before it continued its evolution toward the concerto as we know it today...
...Bach-and his contemporaries-had vanished from the piano repertory. Instead, performers who believed that the old master had no notion of the keyboard's capabilities served up a hybrid fare under the names of Bach-Liszt, Bach-Tausig, or Bach-Bülow. "They put Bach, Mozart, Handel back on the loom," Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo...
Choral, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, will sing music of Handel, Palestrina, Areadelt, and Schubert. Liz Kalkhurst '56 is a featured soloist...
...selections by Handel, a violin sonata and a solo cantata, proved disappointing. They are undistinguished occasional pieces, quite flattering to one of the real geniuses...