Word: b-minor
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...Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy 36 who must now speak for her husband. "The piece has been sitting in the house for years just waiting for Donald " There is lunch at the big kitchen...
...youth by bargaining with Mephistopheles? "There aren't many 50-year-old male dancers left," explains Béjart, who happens to be exactly 50. So, even though he hadn't danced onstage in nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut in the relentlessly athletic work, which is set to music from Bach's Mass in B-minor with frequent explosions of Argentine tango, Béjart observed: Faust is not just a role...
...music had an eerie, almost macabre aura, heighte at one point when Kremer played against a passage that he had taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life and excitement...
Columbia, in conjunction with Melodya, has come out with three Liszt recordings, which include the twelve Transcendental Etudes and the B-minor sonata. Only a select few--like Berman-- have the technique to soar thrugh these finger-twisters without undertaking a mortal struggle of man against piano. Berman's sheer power is almost frightening, but he can play with the most exquisite declicacy when necessary...
Bach's Mass in B-Minor; Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, F. John Adams, conductor, Sanders...