Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three arias chosen from other cantatas. Bressler, who might be called a coloratura tenor, apparently found no difficulty in notes an octave above middle C; lower, however, his voice was so mobile that it seemed thin at any one instant. Dunn chose slightly strange tempos in the closing work, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5: the second movement was faster, the third slower than usual...
...science he admires. He finds little space to discuss the great outward thrust that sent 17th century Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen around the globe. And although he writes of the statesmen and military leaders who helped shape the age-Cromwell, Marlborough, Peter the Great, Frederick William of Brandenburg-his sympathies lie with that other breed of 17th century men who made "all the motions of matter seem to fall into an order of law and the immensity of the universe seem to obey the predictions of the human mind...
...Conductor Thomas Dunn, 37, who divides his time between his regular duties as organist at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and such special music projects as this summer's festival and last fall's three sellout per formances of all of Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Says Dunn of the baroque: "The music of that period speaks to our time...
...Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall debut with the Festival Orchestra, performing the Brandenburg concertos...
...four hours along 35 miles of milling humanity. Women broke through the barricades, children grabbed for the President's coat, people threw torrents of flowers. But Kennedy was grim as he approached the Wall. The East Germans had deliberately stretched three huge flags across the Brandenburg Gate so that the view was obscured...