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Eternal Sounds. A plywood screen behind the orchestra only partially deflected Mediterranean breezes, and musicians were forced to clip their scores to their stands with wooden clothespins. Casals seemed unbothered; his back to the sea, he swung into Bach's Sonata in G. Performers who had been worried about the open theater's acoustics soon learned to forget their fears. The Romans had staged dramas, musical contests and water ballets at Caesarea, and the ancient impresarios knew their business. In the slow second movement, sustained, vibrant notes, clear and fragile as crystal, rippled to the topmost rows...
Sunday's schedule: Vivaldi's Concerti for oboe and strings in D minor and F; Bach's Trio sonata (no. 7) and Canon perpetuum (no. 8) from The Musical Offering; Mozart's Concerto no. 5 in A. K.219; and Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 in A, opus...
...Saturday (3-5 p.m.) program at Matthews Common Room will be Sibellius, Four Legends, Opus 22; Mahler. Symphony no. 1 in D major; Piston. Three Pieces for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon; Thompson, Suits for Oboe, Clarinet, and Viola; Rieti, Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano; and Jongen, Concerto, Opus...
...Sunday's recordings include Mozart, Serenade no. 11 for Winds, in E flat major; Beethoven, Sonata no. 15 in D major; Opus 23; Schuman, Quintet in E fiat major for Piano and Strings, Opus 44; Bizet, Symphony no. 1 in C major; and Bach, Concerto Grosso no. 1 for Strings and Orchestra with piano obligato...
...Recorded music schedule for Matthews Hall Common rooms is: Saturday afternoon, Bach's The Art of the Fugue; Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D major, Opus 6, no. 1; Vivaldi's Trio sonata in D minor, Opus 1, no. 12; and Stradella's Sinfonia in D minor. Sunday, Verdi's String Quartet in e minor; Tchaikovskii's Fatum, Symphonic Poem, Opus 77; Strauss's Symphonia domestica, Opus 53; and The Genesis Suite (Prelude by Schonberg, Creation by Shilkret, Adam and Eve by Tansman, Cain and Abel by Milhaud, Noah's Ark by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Babel by Stravinsky, and The Covenant...