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...naturally expected a good job. Besides being an outstanding student of composition in the department of music, he has concertmaster of the Bach Society Orchestra since his senior year in high school. But Mr. Street showed himself not only competent to handle a treacherously difficult concerto; he and Bentley Layton's gem-like little orchestra, made the concerto exciting...
...performance of Haydn's Symphony No.6, "Le Matin," since this work requires agility from the woodwinds and brass as well as the strings, and relies on soloists within the orchestra. But, in fact, the Haydn came off at least as well as the Bach. After a slightly sluggish start, Layton moved the orchestra onto the solid, fully-packed tone one looks for in a classical symphony. Layton followed what seems to be the current musical fashion and took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed it rather dead...
...size of Layton's orchestra kept him from playing any Romantic works; the other half of Friday's brief program included works by Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives. In its New England premiere, Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa received a bludgeoning the Bach Society had not intended to give it; someone in the orchestra arrived after the concert had begun. Naturally the counterpoint had strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what...
...other, a few woodwinds, attempts to answer the question proposed by a solo trumpet. The woodwinds are only cued in by the conductor, but they play at a tempo independent of his; they must rely on each other for co-ordination. Preserving the sense of tentativeness, of irresolution, Layton took care to bring out the fine details of interpretation and gave these pieces as close to a perfect performance as one could hope...
This year Layton is blessed with orchestra members who can handle solos unusually well. Anthony Greenwald, trumpet, carried the lyric line without faltering in the Ives. Pam Campbell, flute, Randy Havilind, bassoon, and Chris Atwood, bass, put over the jokes in and Haydn's symphony, while, as already noted, Tison Street and Marshall Brown delivered the concertanto solos...