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...Ansbach's Bach. The eighth annual Bach Week at Ansbach, Germany, brought a personal triumph to Manhattan Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, 44. Facing a firm Teutonic conviction that only Germans can play Bach properly, Kirkpatrick made a bold decision. While he was playing his morning performance, word came that Guitarist Andres Segovia was sick and could not fill his engagement that evening. Kirkpatrick agreed to take over the spot, scheduled a finger-breaking program : the Italian Concerto, the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Goldberg Variations...
...Ansbach, Germany, for no reason except enthusiasm and the fact that the old Bach stronghold, Leipzig, is now behind the Iron Curtain, puts on its annual Bach festival (July 23-30). On hand: Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Featured choral work: the B-Minor Mass...
...Ansbach, Germany (July 25-Aug.11): a solid week of Bach, including cantatas and rarely heard motets, the B Minor Mass, the six Brandenburg Concertos...
CAROLINE OF ANSBACH-R. L. Arkell-Oxford University Press...
...most people who know their English history, Queen Caroline means the unhappy spouse of George IV. But George II's Caroline of Ansbach was, between Elizabeth and Victoria, England's ablest queen. Last fortnight her almost forgotten career was brought to light again by an English matron, in a biography that is a deft combination of scholarship and good storytelling...