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When Joey Alfidi was forbidden to play any more rock 'n' roll, the boy concentrated on Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The longhairs paid off. This week, at the age of seven, Joey took over Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, led the Symphony of the Air (formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony) in a full-scale program including Mozart's Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball...
...usefulness of a medium-sized orchestra was ably demonstrated Sunday night in Paine Hall. Since most Baroque and Classical music was written for a group of thirty players or less, Haydn's Symphonies, for example, sound like toys when played by one of our huge Philharmonic organizations. On Sunday, however, his 88th Symphony sounded rich and full when played by the Bach Society Orchestra. Conductor Michael Senturia gave it a passionate but not Romantic interpretation, and kept the Orchestra in his tight conrol at all times...
...last Paine Hall concert of the year--a piano recital by Kalman Novak '45--will be held next Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 8:30 p.m. Novak will play works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Chopin. The concert is free...
...Haydn's masterly "Lord Nelson Mass" presented in Memorial Church on May 13 by Harvard and Radcliffe freshman choruses. Titled by Haydn a Mass in D-Minor, it is nevertheless drawn more often than not, like Bach's B-Minor Mass, into the happy and festive key of D-Major. Performance enormously impressive. First two parts conducted by Cornelia Davenport, last three by Allan Miller. Choristers obviously very carefully rehearsed; tone lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount...
...sprinting to Eliot Dining Hall, missed only first three or four minutes of the Mozart anniversary concert. All but one of the works paled beside the Haydn Mass, but worth hearing anyway. Fleet performances by Laurence Berman and Richard Friedberg of two four-hand piano works, almost as much fun to listen to as to play. Group of pieces by vocal nonet: opening canon pretty insecure, but singers got better as they went along, and the motet Ave Verum came off very well. The celebrated "Dissonant" Quartet suffered at the hands of the Cambridge Quartet from raggedness and faulty violin...