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...ruin a good ensemble; and no matter how it is done, it will always offend some listeners. After two Bach Society performances this season, though, I am convinced this group could play anything well. Couple the basic ability of the orchestra with an energetic, sensitive, and brilliant leader--Nils Vigeland--and the result is the kind of exciting performance that delighted several hundreds last Saturday night at Sanders...
...play like the BSO" were Vigeland's instructions to his orchestra before the program. And they did not. Where a certain other Boston ensemble played through Stravnisky last week as though they hated every minute of it, the Bach Society was alive with enthusiasm for Pulcinella. The piece represents the beginning of twentieth-century musical neoclassicism. Borrowing from Pergolesi, Stravinsky fools with the theme throughout, always setting off the expected (as implied by classical harmonies) against his own turn of phrase...
Another first for concert performance was the Karl Kohn Madrigal (1966). The accompanist was none other than Nils Vigeland who is an excellent pianist. In addition to the modern music, the Chorale sang two short Monteverdi works and the Bach Cantata No. 131. All three were marred by weak soloists, unable to project and unvarying in tone. Still, it would be foolish as well as unkind to chastise the Grad Chorale for their work; one can only hope that in the future their quality will come up to the level of their enthusiasm...
...group to watch this season is the Bach Society, a chamber orchestra of some forty players. Nils Vigeland's talent, taste and personality make him the most exciting musical force at Harvard. Given any kind of support by his orchestra he will provide an extraordinary season of unusual works. Only one familiar piece is in the first program of Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, and Wolf. While the HRO has abolished soloists, the Bach Society will use them in every program. A special American Music concert will feature student compositions. But the real "jump off the deep end" (in Vigeland...
...last figures that Vigeland finished before he died was modestly clad in a smock: a self-portrait of that remarkable sculptor, Gustav Vigeland...