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William Scheide, director of the Bach Aria Group, traced die history of the composer's music to make it better
known.
Aria director Bach 'fan'
By Bill Roberts
The Bach Aria Group, sponsored by the UNL Perfor
ming Arts Series, performs tonight at 8 in the Kimball
Recital Hall. Tickets for the concert, a selection of arias
and duets from the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach,
cost $4 for the general public and S2.S0 for students.
Director William Scheide started the Bach Aria Group
of four singers and five instrumentalists in 1946. Members
are Norman Farrow, bass-baritone; Seth McCoy, tenor;
Lois Marshall, alto; Lorna Haywood, soprano; Robert
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Bloom, oboe; Samuel Baron, flute; Bernard Greenhouse,
cello; Charles Treger, violin; and Yehudi Wyner, piano.
Farrow and Bloom have been with the group since 1946.
Scheide said that during his undergraduate days at
Princeton University, Beethoven interested him most. But
he said he began concentrating on Bach in 1936.
"In those days Bach's music was little known," said
Scheide. . . ' .
Thesis traced music
To help correct that, he wrote a thesis about what hap
pened to Bach's music in the 100 years following his
death in 1750. Scheide said his thesis traced the winding
paths of manuscripts inherited, sold, traded and probably
lost.
For example, he said, Frederick the Great of Prussia
introduced a sample of Bach's work to a Baron Van
Swieten, who was looking for music composed by Bach's '
son Johann Christian Bach. Frederick recommended the
elder Bach's work to the baron, and some 20 years after
Bach's death, Van Swieten introduced it to the Austrian
composer Mozart.
Not until 1850 was a reasonably complete edition of
Bach's work published, Scheide said.
Apparently, the 62-year-old director still has a histori
cal interest in Bach. He said he owns two original cantatas,
a letter and a 1748 oil portrait of the composer.
Notes, translation
Scheide prepared notes and an English translation of
selections to be played Thursday at Kimball.
"There's so much to be gotten out of Bach's music,"
he said, "you have a better chance with a program."
Bach wrote most of the arias and cantatas during the
1720s for Lutheran church services in Leipzig, Germany,
Scheide said. The cantatas were a sort of Germanic
"reply" to operas written in Italy at the time, he said.
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By Ryan Scott
Three of the 1975 Christmas "season's" highly regard
ed releases will make February appearances at three down
town theaters.
Heading the list of new movies, is the adaptation of
Ken Kesey's popular early 1960s' novel, One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest, scheduled to open Feb. 20, at the
Douglas Theater. ,
Stanley Kubrick's latest film, Barry Lyndon, opens this
week at the Cinema 1. And the Gene Wilder comedy, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, is
scheduled for a late February appearance at the Stuart
Theater.
The most anticipated film, One Flew Over The
Cuckoo's Nest, has already received rave reviews from
noted critics nationwide. They are saying four-time Oscar
nominee Jack Nicholson has turned in his first Oscar
winning performance as Randle P. McMurphy, a free
spirited, rough-and-turnble scoundrel so amusingly ornery
it is difficult to dislike him.
Game spells destruction
McMurphy, feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery
of prison work farm labor is committed to the Oregon
State Mental Hospital. He organizes the patients on his
ward into a game of psychological warfare against "Big
Nurse" Ratched, played by Louise Fletcher.
The "game" quickly changes into a power struggle that
eventually spells destruction for McMurphy.
The tragic-comedy, directed by noted Czech film
maker Milos Form an, provides laughs, but meant to capti
vate and move the audience.
Barry Lyndon is director! Kubrick's interpretation of .
William Thackeray's 19th century novel about the ambi
tions of Lyndon, a spiriied, roguish young Irishman
played by Ryan O'Neal.
Critics have been spellbound by the movie, but audi
ence reaction has beerr difficult to gauge.
Slightly longer than three hours, the film may prove
tedious for some.
The cinematography is supposedly breathtaking in its
beauty, maintaining Kubrick's reputation of possessing a
special ability to paint pictures on the screen. Fans of
both 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange
should not miss this one.
Young Frankenstein cast reunited
Wilder wrote and produced The Adventures of Sher
lock Holmes' Smarter Brother without Mel Brooks' col- .
laboration. It reunites Wilder with the zany supporting
cast of Young Frankenstein, Marty "The Eyes" Feldman
and Madeline Kahn.
, Wilder plays Sigi, Holmes' insanely jealous brother as
signed the "trifling" case of the young and beautiful
music-hall singer, Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn). Feldman
plays trustworthy companion Orville Sacker, a man with a
"photographic sense of hearing."
The film is an outrageous comedy, guaranteed to pro
vide a laugh a minute. Wilder's comedic genius is particu
larly noteworthy in the absence of Brooks.
The February and March films should satisfy movie
goers until the year's biggest release, All Tfie President's ''
Men, appears in Lincoln sometime in March or early
April.
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