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...program opened with the Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata No. 209, 'Non sa che sia dolore', written about 1730 in Leipzig. The cantata itself is based on an actual incident--a friend is leaving Germany for his native Italy, and Bach wants to wish him well, despite the sadness in parting. The Sinfonia, in B minor, sets this tone, and somehow greatly resembles the first movement of the D minor violin concerto...
Fritz Hennenberg, director of the East German radio in Leipzig, will speak on Brecht and Music. The talk will be accompanied by slides and music. Music building Room...
PETER SCHICKELE has been inflicting the music of P.D.Q. Bach on a beleaguered public for ten long years now, even since his first, fateful discovery of the manuscript version of the Sanka Cantata in a Leipzig brothel. P.D.Q., apparently no relation to the well-known J.S. Bach, an earlier baroque composer, plumbed unprecedented depths of mediocrity during his deservedly short lifetime. He has emerged only recently, thanks to Schickele's undoubtedly well-intentioned efforts, from the obscurity that kept him from the public eye for two happy centuries...
...lucky 2,700,000 from Leipzig who got out before the wall was built. But still I am very proud of these humble, hard-working people who are making the best of the colorless, dreary life in which they are condemned to live. If I were still living in East Germany today, I probably would be trying, with typical German efficiency and persistence, to make the system work, even if I hated...
...first movement of the Symphony, an allegro, is skillful and delightful. Not surprisingly, it was written in a burst of inspiration; the other movements were constructed afterwards. The serene opening fills out into a vigorous and full-voiced movement. Mixing folk elements with the counterpoint studiously learned at the Leipzig Conservatory, Sullivan blends them with the brilliant orchestration technique that was praised in his earliest works and became such a trademark of the great Savoy operettas. The movement is all the more remarkable in view of the composer's age, twenty-four years at the time of its composition...