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Never were these extremes more in evidence than in the Bach Society Orchestra's concert last Saturday night. Apparently set on shedding its all-Baroque image, the BSO performed a quarter of works representing every major stylistic period from the Baroque to the twentieth century. The program consisted of the...

Author: By --robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 3/14/1967 | See Source »

The Idyll's original performance was by a minimum of musicians strung along the stairway of the Wagner villa. In a misguided attempt at authenticity, Hathaway eliminated most of the Bach Society's already small complement of strings. Without security in numbers. the string players were cowed by the infamous...

Author: By --robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 3/14/1967 | See Source »

The orchestra and Conductor Daniel Hathaway both seemed more at home in the romantic Siegfried Idyll. For the first time there was an attempt to provide the music with a decent amount of expression, dynamic contrast, and formal shape. Thrown into relief by the work's reduced instrumentation, the winds...

Author: By --robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 3/14/1967 | See Source »

An idyll merely because it is made in the form of an idyll.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Attic Shapes! | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE ART OF GIVING | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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