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Unlike his recent predecessors, conductor Jack Jackson acknowledges the importance of performing rarely-heard early works. Friday's program began with the Sixth Suite of the Banchetto Musicale (1617) by Hermann Schein, a significant but neglected forerunner of Heinrich Schutz. The Suite, consisting of five stately dances, emerged slightly Stokowskified; an excessive number of strings, plus modern oboes and timpani, produced a far richer sound than their Baroque counterparts. And one could make a nice chorale out of the notes missed by the brass (an off night for them generally). But no matter; this was charming music, realized with spirit...
...orchestra followed the Schein with Bach's D major Suite--cleverly illustrating the evolution of derived dance forms. Bach ambitiously divides his instruments into three groups; trumpets (3) and timpani, oboes (3) and bassoon, and strings and continuo, giving to each both entire sections and incidental passages, bounded by two movements in unison. Jackson's approach emphasized accents and pulse rather than singing line; he propelled all but the ponderous Overture quite effectively. Solo playing varied from highly impressive (the oboes in the second Bouree) to characterless (the strings in the Trio...
...Swedish international star like Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman, but after a disastrous experience in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, she intends never to work again for Hollywood, whose exemplar potentates she recalls as "not very dependable-little crazy people you couldn't trust." Her husband, Harry Schein, is a millionaire refugee from Austria whose entire family died in gas chambers. He made his money by inventing a process for purifying water, but has long since sold his business and has just founded the new Swedish Film Institute...
...works by Bach (Cantata No. 65), Buxtehude (Das neugebor'ne Kindelein) and Schein (Vom Hillel hoch da komm ich her), as performed by the Glee Clubs with the Orchestra, were, in nearly every detail, an unmitigated delight...
Otherwise everyone had an easy day. Vic Niederhoffer beat Frankel 6-3, 6-3; Frank Ripley tripped Kaplan, 6-4, 6-2; Chum Steele walloped Seth Schein, 6-1, 6-2. Doug Walter crushed Steve Hartman, 6-1, 6-2; and Sandy Walker outstroked Bob Dorman...