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...celebrate its hundredth anniversary this year, the Glee Club has arranged an extensive concert program. Haydn's Creation will be performed with the Pierian Sodality on December 6, and Bach's Mass with the Boston Symphony on March 9. During spring vacation, the Club will give concerts in several South-western cities...
...Haydn, the first great master of the quartet medium, was represented by his Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1. Although composed in his last years, it is a fresh and daring work. The four musicians--violinists Marc Gottlieb and Vladimir Weisman, violist William Schoen, and 'cellist Irving Klein--performed it with a fine sense of ensemble and suitable restraint; in fact, the 'cellist tended to be too restrained. The first two movements went particularly well...
...should. None of the musicians has what could be termed a big tone; and each of them tried to hide the fact by forcing his tone to the point of buzzing. This resulted in harshness rather than playing of tang and guts. The more restrained music of Haydn is obviously their proper dish...
...concerts at the imposing castle, which is often passed off as a medieval relic, although it was actually built by mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria only 70 years ago. The specialty at Schloss Herrenchiemsee (near Munich) is low-calorie chamber music, e.g., Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn, Boccherini, Dittersdorf, played by a string quartet beneath the castle's crystal mirrors and chandeliers...
...first, to a melody by Joseph Haydn. A few years later the words were fitted to Sir Arthur Sullivan's now famous tune, St. Gertrude...