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...Sutte for string orchestras. The program also includes a Vivaldo concerto that is seldom given, and a concerto for the violon-cello that has never been heard in Boston before will be played by R. U. Jameson '32, president of the Sodality. The program is as follows: Water Music Handel Concerto in B Minor for four violins Vivaldo Violin solos S. T. Romasskieicz '33 George Mateyo '34 David Band '34 E. M. Reover, Jr. 3G. Concerto in D. Minor for Violoncello J. Bach St. Paul's Suite for string orchestra Holst Jig Oelintao - Intermezzo -- Finale (The Dungeon...
...programme of the first concert will consist of numbers by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Braun, and Holst...
...Hall, Manhattan, last week, made a solemn bow and, turning around, flipped his coat tails in the face of a smart Philharmonic-Symphony audience. The gesture was not one of disrespect. German Bruno Walter was just preparing to sit down before a keyboard, to play the harpsichord part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players. But he conducted for the most part by facial expressions slightly stern...
Walter's double-barreled feat was not new. Conductors sat at harpsichords before they ever thought of standing up in front of their orchestras, waving the first stout batons. In just such a fashion big, bewigged Handel made music for the Londoners of King George I. In the U. S. Karl Muck and Willem Mengelberg have conducted from keyboards...
...conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing modesty and simplicity of attitude." Henderson let his Sun readers believe that things had been just soso. In the Times Olin Downes wrote heavy, rhapsodic sentences about a great triumph: "For once the music of Handel was properly enunciated. It had the lordly sweep, the songfulness, the strength which inhere in Handel's glorious art, and it was clothed in sumptuous tone that rang and chanted through the auditorium...