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...March from "The Queen of Sheba"Gounod *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Bach Goes to Town," A Fugue in Swing Templeton Orchestration by Henry Brant *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss Concerto for Pianoforte No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Rubinstein I. Moderato II. Moderato assai III. Allegro assai Soloist: Selma Pelonsky Songs by "Smiff en Poofs" *Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies *Prayer of Thanksgiving, Old Dutch Hymn Valerius-Kremser *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Often in the history of music, men of considerable artistic stature are lost to view in the shadow of a contemporary titan who dominates his period to the exclusion of all lesser figures. With Bach and Handel towering over them the lesser composers of the early 18th Century have been almost entirely obscured. Vivaldi, Corelli, Teleman, Rosenmuller and Rameau are only a few of the composers of this period whom the average concert-goer classifies--if at all--as "like Bach, but not as good...
...which would raise them to the very top, they have contributed much that is worthy of attention. Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...
...places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...