Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their tunes in accompaniments when the countrymen of Bach and Palestrina still took their melody barbarously naked...
...dingy Lafayette Theatre, while a sophisticated audience squinted and chattered about esthetics, the von Grona blacks were officially presented as Art. In the pit an all-Negro "symphony" orchestra, sporting a single saxophone as a concession to racial idiom, played lukewarm jazz, the Star-Spangled Banner and Bach's Air for the G String. The evening's most pretentious item, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, was played on a phonograph...
That is the key to Claude's tastes in music. He is more interested in the classical composers than he is in writers of jazz. When he plays for recreation, he prefers Bach to Ellington...
...groups of pieces, Hartmann will play selection from Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Brahms, Debussey, and Villa-Lobos...
This week the Hammond comes into its musical majority when Italian Organist Fernando Germani, a onetime child prodigy, gives a Hammond recital in Boston's Symphony Hall. First organist to take a Hammond on tour, he will play Bach and Handel organ music, as well as arrangements of piano and orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count...