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CECILIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Wednesday, January 9, at 8:00 Thursday, December 6, at 8:00 David Randolph, Conductor HORACIO GUTIERREZ, Piano NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" ORCHESTRA Henry Lewis, Conductor Friday, January 11, at 8:00 Alexis Weissenberg, Piano JANET BAKER, Mezzo-soprano All-Rachmaninoff Program Monday, December 17, at 8:00 AMERICAN SYMPHONY Saturday, January 12, at 2:30 Friday, December 7, at 8:00 ORCHESTRA Orchestra conducted by CHARLOTTE THE MASTERWORK CHORUS AND Morton Gould, Composer/Conductor BERGEN ORCHESTRA Lorin Hollander, Piano Aaron Rosand, Violinist David Randolph, Conductor Works of Copland, Gershwin, Kenneth Cooper, Judith Norell, Harriett Handel's "Messiah" Gould,! Ivesf Wingreen, Harpsichordists I New York Premiere Works of Corelli, Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann Saturday, December 8, at 3:00 YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK Saturday, January 12, at 8:00 David Stahl, Conductor Wednesday, December 19, at 8:00 MUSICA SACRA To be announced Richard Westenburg, Conductor Saturday, December 8, at 7:00 THE MASTERWORK CHORUS AND Sunday, January 13, at 2:30 ORCHESTRA Piano Thursday, December 20, at 8:00 RUDOLF FIRKUSNY, Repeat of December 7th Program "Heavy Organ" Virgil Fox with Revelation Lights Monday, January 14, at 8:00 Sunday, December 9, at 2:00 STUTTGART CHAMBER THE MASTERWORK CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA Friday, December 21, at 8:00 Karl Munchinger, Conductor Repeat of December 7th Program ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK Bach's Art of the Fugue Lyndon Woodside, Conductor Sunday, December at 8:30 9, Handel's "Messiah" "Caribbean Night" Tuesday, Soloists: Eleanor Steber, Muriel January 15, at 8:00 Greenspon, Dean Wilder, Robert Hale WARSAW PHILHARMONIC Monday, December 10, at 8:00 Edward Brewer, Harpsichord ORCHESTRA BUDAPEST SYMPHONY Witold Rowicki, Conductor ORCHESTRA Konstanty Kulka, Violin Works of Mozart, Szymanowski, Gyorgy Lehel, Conductor Saturday, December 22, at 8:00 Boguslawski, Stravinsky Ferenc Tarjani, French horn Sunday, December 23, at 8:00 Works of Bartok, Strauss, Falla (I.F.V.O.*) JUDY COLLINS (LF.V.O.*) Tuesday, December II, at 8:00 THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRAL Monday, December 24, at 12:00 Mid. 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OfSTlLLCD FROM lOOV, GRAtN NEUTftAL SPI^'I^J "Musica Sacra"—In and Out of the Church The Central Presbyterian Church, Hall performance of Handel's Messiah gan accompaniment, they could now located at the corner of Sixty- in its original Baroque form. spend about the same price and hear fourth Street and Park Avenue, boasts In a small office adjacent to the an orchestral version of the same an unusual musical tradition dating Church's pulpit, stacks of books are work. People were just not coming to back to 1899, when Charles Ives was piled in precarious piles; a bass drum, the concerts.