Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rules forbade kissing at the church altar between bride and bridegroom; the throwing of confetti or rice (an ancient fertility symbol) at the church door. Banned was secular and operatic music such as the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Oh, Promise Me, At Dawning etc. Instead, Dr. Piepkorn recommended Bach and a number of lesser church composers. And he directed that wedding rehearsals be brief, dignified non-conversational. Apparently shocked at newspaper accounts of the casual gaiety of the rehearsal of the John Roosevelt-Anne Clark wedding last month, Dr. Piepkorn said: "They must have had a merry time...
Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...
Group one on the program will consist of "shout For Joy" by Bach, "Supplications" by Palestvina, and "Chey-uses For Freemasons" by Mozart. In the second group the Glee Club will sing choruses from "the Yeoman of the Guard" by Sullivan, "Liebeslieder," and three folk songs by Brahms...
...Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov *Large, from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *Waltz of the Flowers, from the "Nutcracker" Suite Tchaikovsky *"The Prince and the Princess," from "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov *Ave Maria Bach-Gounod *Bolero Ravel College Medley by the Regis College Glee Club Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *March, "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar...