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org Genius Being Hurried—

With a Beat That Throttles

WJ Philharmonic All-Bach

| | Program a Special Kind

By Henry Butler

gram by Ernst Hoffman and the Indiana University Philharmonic was a very special kind of concert. Mr. Hoffman, his soloists and the orchestra trotted out. concertos for one, two, three and four pianos in one of the largest displays of pianistic armament seen in Indiana Uni-

versity Auditorium in a long on Bach, But I couldn't help feeltime. - ing that Miss Cohen and Miss Lane, like Jeanne Miller, who folFour nine-foot concert theme re'D minor con grands, with tops. up like huge orto for solo plano, were frusfunereal wing collars, are an al, taq most alarming sight. At close range they might have frightened! anv orchestra but Mr. Hoffman's. The program opened with the C major concerto for two pianos, bringing Mary Jane €ohen and Rebecca Lane to the keyboards.

The adagios of both concertos

beat that throttled cxpressiveness. I realize there's good scholarly basis for that kind of interpretation, if only because it re- . dresses the wrongs done by conFrom the start, it was evident q,.i5rs ike Stokowski in some

that Mr. Hoffman follows the ,c.. sentimental treatments of strong, rather rigidly disciplined Bach.

&erman school of Bach conducting. In that tradition, the beat rust vefalways precise, even in adagio./and largo movements, . Soméy of last night's performance retjinded me of a pre-Hitler recording I used to have of the first chorus of the St. Matthew : : Passion, sung by the Berlin Phil-i Miss Miller, who played very harmonic choir. In this strenuous, Intelligently and, I thought, did athletic school of Bach interpre- Der level best to sound like an tation. the Berlin choir sang the Interpreter rather than a fugitive

But there is beauty in Bach's melodic line more- than in al-

out expressiveness, rule out nuance, and all you've got Jeft is an impression of genius being hurried along,

especially put upon, Another Ordeal

scherzo A Matter of Taste No doubt, it’s a matter of taste. | I admire Mr. Hoffman's work in concerto for

I hesitate to _ disagree with him

sn Miller ‘and Marjorie

| deal. Even in

{certo or an orchestral

| massive, rather than subtle, | ‘The evening's most satisfactory

| pianos, with Edwin La Bounty, [Dick Morris, John O’'Steen and | Thomas Simpson at the key- { boards.

Force, clarity, precision and big!

{certo seem especially effective.

| | Economy

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BLOOMINGTON, Y ee 21—Last night's all Bach pro-|

were taken with an implacable -

most ‘any other composer's. Take

dirge-like chorus as if it were a from a metronome, seemed to me

After intermission, the C major | three pianos and] tother departments so much that). hestra put Jean Kelly, Verna! Schlamp| [through another and similar orthe two allegro| | movements, the treatment was in| [the vein of a Brandenburg con-| suite—|

| performance was in the concludP [ing A minor concerto for four

[climactic volume made this con-|

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