Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality of Friday evening's Bach Society concert in Paine Hall ranged from bad to mediocre. Horn soloist Joel Kotin's silvery tone and sure techniqque almost raised Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto in E-flat to the level of excellence. But vacillating accompaniment from the orchestra, conducted by Andrew Schenck, and an intrinsically ordinary concerto, prevented even Kotin's performance from saving the program...
Last week in Frankfurt, after Dixon conducted the Hessian Radio Orchestra in a program of Schoenberg, Debussy and Mozart, the ovation he got only echoed what critics have been saying in print that in his first season at the head of the orchestra, Dixon has made the musicians play "as if transformed." For all his flair, Dixon is no fancy...
...bloodedly Tuscan, in the manner of Toscanini, nor chiseled and cold, as many Europeans believe all music made by Americans must be. Instead, it is full-bodied and vigorous while it remains consistently controlled. In Frankfurt, Dixon's style has earned him a reputation for playing Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in the Germanic fashion-which is the highest accolade the city can bestow...
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...
...Mozart was another matter. Opening with the Sonata in E flat Major, K. 481, for violin and piano, Silverstein and Kirchner lost their coordination several times and displayed poor balance generally. Kirchner had rather sloppy technique, especially in scale passages. The Trio II in B flat Major K. 502, caused them still more trouble in keeping together, and they gave a generally perfunctory reading. Perhaps the saddest commentary on the evening was the number of people who left (unwisely, as it turned out) before the work best performed: the Sonata Concertante...