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Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto is the kind of music that loses all its effectiveness without a graceful, polished performance. The orchestra gave it just that. Flutists Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson played easily and lucidly, while Sandor Shapiro's violin performance was appropriately subdued. The string section and Daniel Pinkham's harpsichord supplied a carefully integrated accompaniment...
Wednesday night's concert, the second of three, began with a Concerto for violin, cello, and harpsichord by Couperin. Ruth Posselt, the new violinist, is the competent, unspectacular kind of performer who subordinates herself to the music at hand. Her easy-going interpretation was perfect for this comparatively light-weight work. 'Cellist Samuel Mayes, who appeared in all eight parts of the program, showed remarkable versatility. His tone was full and rich in the important solo sections, but in the later continuo passage he held himself down so that one could barely hear him over the harpsichord...
...selections by Handel, a violin sonata and a solo cantata, proved disappointing. They are undistinguished occasional pieces, quite flattering to one of the real geniuses...
...program ended with a soprano aria and a violin concerto by the Leroy Anderson of the Eighteenth Century, Frederick Telemann. Lyrical and witty, it is easy to understand why such pieces were so popular in their...
That happened to Goodman four years ago, when the Philharmonic, playing under Leopold Stokowski in Chicago, swung into Arcady Dubensky's energetic Fugue for Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...