Abstract

Music

It is opined that Bach Choir is no way a disappointment. It is as good a chorus as the author have ever heard, and this is the more remarkable when one remember that it is recruited locally and that its members are not even in contact with musical experience except by radio and through Dr. J. Fred Wolle. It is opined that Dr. Wolle's conducting is a compound of everything admirable: authority, imagination, fire, restraint, architectural sense, virtuosity in choral manipulation-- he combines them all in proportions that leave little to be desired. The quality of his choir's tone is excellent, and its quantity great. Dr. Wolle is the perfect example of the conductor whose work has been done almost completely in rehearsal, so that hardly anything more than his mere presence is needed to remind the chorus of what it is to be done.