Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-05
Music
News
Bach Observonces
Due This Summer
By Alice Eversmon

ginning to emerge gradually from
the business of the winter season
These have grown with the years
for there was a time when all
music making slackened during
the months when people were
seeking rest and recreation close to
nature. Now the inclination to
spend part of that time either
studying or hearing music has
been an impetus to the promo
ton of various endeavors that
start as soon as the regular sea-
son is finished.
The great figure in music this
year is Johann Sebastian Bach.
His death two centuries ago, on
July %, is being commemorated
with performances Of his works
through different mediums. AS yet,
no big celebration is announced for
the actual date. which comes at a
tine of the summer when even
the most ardent music enthusiasm
goes TACIleI imp.
This is particularly remarkable
rs regards the Berkshire Festival
at Tanglewood which has sched-
uled concerts on the day before
and the day after, neither Of
which lists a single Bach number.
True. the Boston Symphony con-
certs In the Theater-Concert Hall,
to be conducted by Serge Kous-
sevitzky. has four programs on the
two week ends beginning July 8,
devoted exclusively to Bach but
that has been the custom for many
years as is the following ALL
Mozart programs.
Choir Schedules Works.
The Bach Choir Of Bethlehem
continues it's annual presentation
of Bach's music in May as is usual.
The May 10 and 20 programs are
sold out already so that the plan
to duplicate them on May 26 and
81 has been decided upon. The
magnificent choir will give hear
ings to the christmas Oratorio,"
the "Magnificat" and the Mass
in B Minor"
The State University OF New
Jersey will commemorate the an
niversary with a three-day Bach
festival in the university gymna-
stun on April 7. 8 and 9,
On Good Friday and Holy Sat-
urday, The Passion According to
st. Matthew" will be given by the
New Jersey College for Women
Choir. Rutgers Glee Club and five
soloists with the Rochester Phil
harmonic Orchestra under the d.
rection OF Erich Leinsdorf.
On Easter Sunday. the orches-
ira will play Bach's cart Of
Fugue," Suite No. 3 in D Major"
the "Brandenberg Concerto No.
L." the Double Concerto in D
Minor" and the chorale-prelude
Before Thy Throne I Stand"
Foreign Observance Set.
In Vienna, the Austrian Society
Of the Friends of Music will ar
range a Bach festival for the first
two weeks in June. Paul Hinde-
NTH, considered to be one of the
greatest authorities on Bach, will
conduct a program which is ex-
pected to feature the Concerto
for Four Hands" and one Of the
Brandenberg concertos.
The Edinburgh Festival, which
runs from August 20 to Septem-
Der 10. has not indicated any
special observance OF the Bach an
niversary. 1t may be forthcoming
when details are worked out but
at present, the overall plans are
shaping to the same imposing size
as in the three successful past
seasons.
Williamsburg Concerts.
Some Bach will be included in
the candlelight concerts in the
Governors Palace In Williams
burg, Va. The concerts will begin
on April 8 and be given every
Thursday during April and May.
This year, q group Of musicians,
headed by Cary McMurran Of the
Peninsula Orchestra Association,
will approximate the small SYM
phony used at the end Of the 18th
century In Colonial America. They
will be dressed in 18th century
attire to At In with the picturesque
Colonial surroundings. This type
Of concert has not been presented
In Williamsburg In three years for
the programs were built mostly
around the harpsichord.
Additions March Is.
Meanwhile, additions for ad-
mission to the student orchestras
ct the Berkshire Music Center In
Tanglewood will be held from
March is through 1S In Carnegie
Recital Hall, New York. String
players will be heard on the 18th,
voodwinds on the 18th, brass on
the 18th at 10 am. and the piano
ut 1880 am. with the 18th given
over to timpani and harp.
The very interesting Composers
Conference and Chamber Music
Center will be In operation again
ct Middlebury College in Vermont
from August 10 to September q
The sessions will be devoted to q
clinic for composers with the per-
Torrance Of works written or sub
mitted during the conference and
to coaching In chamber music
Scholarships are available to both
composers and performers about
which information may be had
BY writing the college.
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