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...Second Violin Sonata Michael Day played with admirable musicianship; Bertram Baldwin accompanied at the harpsichord. Violinist David Hurwitz closed his part of the concert with a fine performance of Handel's Sonata in F. He played with restraint and a warm tone, and was ably assisted by Jonathan Thackeray, harpsichord, and Mary Davidoff, continuo...
...Kodaly's Te Deum Laudamus, a massive composition demanding endurance as well as musicianship, was presented with the fervor it requires. Soloists Margaret Lapsley, Marcia Heintzelman, Franklin van Halsema, and Thomas Beveridge were impressive in both vocal quality and understanding interpretation. A brilliant accompaniment was supplied by pianists Jonathan Thackeray and Bernard Kreger. In equally excellent accompaniment by a brass choir from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra highlighted the performance of Jubilate Deo, a robust sacred work by the 16th Century Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli. The choice of this concluding work was a happy one, balancing the opening Palestrina work...
...forced. Molds beautiful lines with much care; has great insight into phrasing of the music. A real musician's violinist in the best Mischa Elman tradition. For my money, the finest undergraduate violinist here in at least ten years; has the stuff of which great fiddlers are made. Jonathan Thackeray his partner at the piano. Formidable technique, but tended to play too loud. Main trouble: his playing lacked poetry--fatal for his solo number, the Chopin F-Minor Ballade...
...Adams House Music Society (David Hurwitz, violin & Jonathan Thackeray, piano), Adams House dining hall...
Aneurin Bevan, Engineer Herbert Hoover, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Actress Lillian Gish. The books and authors discussed were and continue to be uncompromisingly first class, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...