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Conductor Bentley Layton chose a wise program for his chamber orchestra, and performed it with security, confidence, and a very welcome accuracy. Layton apparently did his work with the orchestra before the concert. Last minute attempts to save a sinking orchestra were totally absent from his podium performance; he infused the orchestral sound with the proper delicacy and care...
...Understandably, the Bach Society Orchestra playing Bach's fourth Klavier concerto in A major was a fine show. Luise Vosgerchian, soloist and preceptor of music in the Department of Music, seized the concerto firmly in hand and gave it an energetic and clear performance. Miss Vosgerchian and conductor Layton worked together very closely; the taperings at the ends of phrases and changes in dynamics, for example, fitted together like fine-tolerance metal work. Although the second movement (Larghettoo) may have been a bit too fast, here Miss Vosgerchian and the orchestra produced a real sense of intimacy. A manly final...
Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...
...credit, Layton did call for a change in loudness in the first movement; be occasionally tried to bring out a few of the obvious string lines. When that didn't work he had to revert just to keeping time. Happily, he did that efficiently, with a minimum of movement. One cannot really blame the overwhelming dullness of the performance on Layton: the speakers in this dialogue of instruments were unfortunately dumb. Hopefully, next year's concerts will show what...
...Recently Layton '63, recently named of the Bach Society Orchestra, lead the group for the first time at p.m. tonight in Palne Hall. The conductor, Andrew Schenck '62, conduct the orchestra in Wagner's fried Idyll, Mozart's Horn Concerto , and Bartok's Roumanian Dances. on the program: Bach's Branden- Concerto...