Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joel Lazar and the Bach Society Orchestra gave an-other demonstration Sunday afternoon of their phenomenal ability to play almost anything. This time they presented Mozart, Vivaldi, and Milhaud, and handled all three with considerable case. The orchestra's consistently graceful and polished readings afforded a most pleasant antidote to the bleakness of a pre-blizzard Cambridge...
...three works on the program, the Mozart Serenade No 9 in D. K. 320 (-"Posthorn") received probably the most successful performance. The serenade demands a good deal of orchestral versatility. Its seven alternately bustling and doleful movements are among Mozart's most intricately scored. To its great credit, Mr. Lazar's orchestra managed to maintain a perfectly balanced tone throughout, and Mr. Lazar's direction was itself pretty close to ideal. His crisp phrasing and invariably brisk tempt imparted to the music a restrained breathlessness that is all too rarely achieved in university Mozart performances. If the strings were occasion...
...BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA will give its second concert of the season in Paine Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Conductor Joel Lazar has included on his program Vivaldi's Concerto for Orchestra ("per la solennita di S. Lorenzo"), Milhaud's Symphony No. 1 for small orchestra, and Mozart's Posthorn Serenade...
Also Richard M. Koch (Math), of Kirkland House; Joel Lazar (Music), of Quincy House; William V. Nestrick of Adams House; William W. (Biochemical Sciences), of Kirkland House; Daniel G. Quillan (Math), Lowell House; and Peter E. Quint (History and Literature), of Lowell House...
...Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces on the program was evident here in even greater abundance. Their marvellous tone, perfect, balance and phrasing, and rhythmic and technical assurance all gave Professor Piston reason to beam while he bowed with Mr. Lazar at the Serenata's conclusion...