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...losing a breast to cancer any more "tragic" than losing a spleen. It is a lot less tragic than losing a limb or vital organ...
Third Season Cambridge Concert Series presents its first concert: Edward Tarr, trumpet, and George Kent, organ, playing Baroque, Classic, and con-temporary works. Tickets $3.50. Sunday...
...speakers in 29 cabinets, four of which are 30-in. woofers (for the deep pedal tones) located high in the flies above the stage. The output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic mystery and 20th century guts and power. Its complex...
...Carnegie's new Rodgers really worth all that time and money? Emphatically yes. Fox's recital was merely the first of an inaugural series this season featuring such other eminent organists as Pierre Cochereau, Fernando Germani and Claire Coci. More important, perhaps, the new organ will permit performances of a sizable repertory of neglected works for orchestra and organ-notably the Saint-Saens "Organ" Symphony, the Poulenc Organ Concerto, and the concertos of Handel and Haydn...
Carnegie's new organ will do that in a way not obvious to the average listener. Different orchestras often have different pitches. The standard middle A, to which most orchestras tune, is 440 cycles per second. But the Vienna Philharmonic, for example, tunes to 445 for a brighter sound, while the New York Philharmonic prefers 441. Since the pitch of an ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn...