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...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...
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...
Died. Joseph M. Schenck, 82, ex-chairman of 20th Century-Fox and United Artists, Hollywood's patient, genial master decision maker who spanned cinema history from the silents to wide-screen extravaganzas; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between...
Only the second movement, dominated by the calm theme that Brahms vowed he would include in his ninth symphony, achieved any degree of balance or emotion, and even then it was not Mr. Schenck's doing: the orchestra's principal oboist, Eliott Noyes, and its principal cellist, Clarke Slater, (both of whom received their musical training at Vermont's Putney School) were chiefly responsible for this transient success...
...Symphony Orchestra toured the country without a conductor after Toscanini's death. Mr. Schenck, who must see himself as a William Dobbin, should not accord the departed Joel Lazar the same rites. The Bach Society Orchestra this year stands in considerable need of a conductor, and one who will be both meticulous and despotic...