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...Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal irony the scene of chaos is explained and sanctified by a great chorus roaring triumphantly to Handel's music: "And He shall reign forever and ever!" Seldom in cinema has the nature of revolution been realized with such profundity and expressed with such power. Bunuel indulges in no sentimentality about "the masses." Rabble is rabble to him; the mob is a beast with many heads that destroys...
Last night's was an odd concert. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra surpassed itself in many respects: it delivered a fully professional performance of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony, under the direction of Michael Senturia. Yet an accumulation of minor failings and a stolidly unadventuresome program--Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Handel--revealed that the orchestra is, after all, only a remarkable organization of musical amateurs...
...Handel's 'Concerto Grosso in A Minor,' Op. 6, No. 4, Senturia extracted something rare in student orchestras: a solid string sound. Solos by Lawrence Franko, concertmaster, with the harpsichord, came out clean, vigorous, and straight-forward...
...surprise), but don't buy it. Joan Sutherland is its major attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
...Wednesday evening's concert in Paine Hall by John Wiseman, baritone, and Michel Singher, piano, heard by far the best of the three Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club recitals this year. Wiseman, an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera Company this past summer, sustained a splendid resonance from a Handel lyric through the complete cycle of nine songs by Faure...