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Bach Society. The phenomenal cellist Yo-Yo Ma is soloist with the Bach Society Orchestra this Saturday. Promises to be another Bach Soc packed performance at Sanders. Get the tickets early...
...River apart, but for all its naivete, it is adroitly orchestrated and engagingly melodic. In addition, the concerto is genuinely historic-the first real specimen of China's current efforts to absorb Western music. "The fact is," says New York's Daniel Epstein, 27, the superb piano soloist on the LP, "that Yellow River is the favorite music of one-fifth of the world's population, and that alone merits its beingheard." William Bender
...have a proclivity for equating feeling with decibels, but his playing is characterized by careful attention to rhythm and phrasing. Even his critics concede that he possesses one of the century's greatest organ-virtuoso techniques. Born in Princeton, Ill., where his mother was alto soloist in the Lutheran church and his father owned the local moviehouse and was the "best auctioneer the state of Illinois has ever seen," Fox began piano lessons at eight. A year later he discovered an old organ in a barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours...
...summer season at Tanglewood. Since then, shifts in personnel (only Taylor, who left the New York City Opera orchestra for the Dorian, is a survivor of the original unit) have entailed a search for players of a very special type. Each, like exuberant Clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, must be of soloist caliber yet have the temperament that prizes subtle, intimate musical expression over the splashy sound and bravura display of solo and orchestral work. Each, whether he is naturally lighthearted, like Flutist Karl ("Fritz") Kraber, or intensely dedicated, like Oboist Charles Kuskin, must have the empathy to take a tempo from...
...last movement of the Haydn symphony teased the audience with successive crescendos which finally culminated to end the piece, the excitement had risen, and Baker was given a roaring final ovation. The Bach Society's next concert features Yo-Yo Ma as guest soloist. If he can continue the influence on the orchestra that his classmates from Music 180 have forged, it should be a fine concert...