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...Bach Society Orchestra, under the direction of John Harbison '60, will present a concert of works by Purcell, Piston, and Mozart tomorrow evening at 8:30 p.m. in Paine Hall...
Reviving the old Germanic custom of Abendmusiken, Memorial Church has instituted a March series of free Sunday evening concerts. Inaugurating the series last Sunday was a recital of music for organ and strings, ranging from Purcell to Piston...
...Church's splendid Aeolian-Skinner organ to fine advantage. There was occasional insecurity in the string ensemble, but the over-all result was above par. The finest works on the program were the corner ones: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-minor, BWV 544, and Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. The Bach was especially welcome, for it is not often heard these days; it is a lofty master-piece built on unpromising material--one more proof that, in art, manner is more important than matter. Professor Piston's piece, idiomatically written and solidly crafted, still...
Organist Lois Pardue and a string ensemble conducted by Kalman Novak will play works of Bach, Aaron Copeland, Edmund Haines, Handel, Henry Purcell and Walter Piston...
American Airlines put a big bet this week on the future of air freight. To Douglas Aircraft went a $4,250,000 contract to turn ten of American's piston-engined DC-7B airliners into air freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...