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...Radcliffe Choral Society was also present at the meeting and the clubs jointly Sang selections from Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Brahm's Requiem, both of which have been, sung at Symphony concerts...
Last winter when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...
Last week, despite the gloomy predictions, the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Chapel, announced the beginning of another Bach Festival. Bach enthusiasts had come from Vermont, Georgia, New York, Minneapolis. Again 240 Bethlehem natives reverently intoned the Mass's pleading Kyrie, the deeply moving Crucifixus, the climactic Et Resurrexit...
...Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem the U. S. headquarters for Bach. So satisfied were they all with the performance of Conductor Carey that they engaged him to be Wolle's permanent successor...
John Ruef, a salesman for Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., sounded an A on his oboe. During the noisy tuning up several of the amateurs nervously knocked the music off their racks. But once under way they traversed bravely the technical difficulties of a Bach Chorale and Fugue, of Brahms's great Fourth Symphony. Violinist Amy Neill, wife of Lawyer Avern Scolnik who fiddled in the orchestra, soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise...