Show Sunday Work s To Festival By Erick Noach Last Sunday's performance of Gounod's Petite for Woodwinds and Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings was a wonderful conclusion of the Ninth Annual Chamber Music festival The program featured two works in which no instrument is to the thus showing us the ideal of chamber music The Gounod opus demonstrates the amazing range of possible in wind Its sources of inspiration are the for reminds of dance melodies from southern whereas the Andante Cantabile obviously is influenced by some of Mozart's string In spite of there is a remarkable unity and well-balanced structure in the Mendelssohn's Octet is in our opinion the most outstanding chamber music work of his giving in a perfect technique a full self-portrait of his musical All players being well-known distinguished members of faculty and the homogeneity of the performing ensembles was we really would have to mention all seventeen names in order to indicate who pleased us as we are aware of the fact that this would go beyond the patience of the or the printer's we refer reluctantly for these data to the printed limiting ourselves to the expression of our sincere which need no detailed We regret that this Chamber Music Festival is because we enjoyed its program as well as its The latter point has to be stressed because of several reactions to our review of the first accusing us of too severe a Without changing our we would like to point out that a fair performance deserves a fair an indication of what remains to be desired shows the reviewer's confidence in the performer's otherwise i friendly sh would be adequate our the ermst in The large public ed these concerts that there is a for chamber music The ions neglect this f e microscopic ably it is not to interrupt TV wondering We are sure tha University radio station more attention to aspect of |