Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program consisting of works of John Sebastian Bach will be presented by the Wellesley College Choir and the Harvard College Glee club on Sunday at 7:30 o'clock in the Houghton Memorial chapel at Wellesley. 70 men and 90 girls will participate. The program will consist of The Magnifieat and the Kantata No. 190, "Singet dem Herrn". Soloists for this performance will be: Jean MacDonald Haddow, contralto; Joseph F. Lautner, tenor; and Daniel Harris, baritone. Mr. Carl Weinrich will accompany on the organ...
...hours later Hugo Leichtentritt, lecturer on Music, speaks in Paine Hall on "The great masters of Baroque and Rococo Music in their idyllic and elegiac aspects: Bach, Handel, Rameau, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart." Musical illustrations are to accompany this talk, one in a Wednesday series by Leichtentritt...
When Conductor Eugene Ormandy last week led the Philadelphia Orchestra through its final Manhattan performance of the season, listeners were pleasantly startled at Lucien Cailliet's transcription of a 17th Century passacaglia by Dietrich Buxtehude. Through its 28 melodic evolutions they could unmistakably recognize the theme Bach had later expanded and used in his great Passacaglia in C Minor.* But few in the audience had ever heard more about Buxtehude than his odd name. Important as is his niche in the history of music, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a great organist whose works are rarely played...
...Johann Sebastian Bach walked some 200 miles to hear the Abendmusiken...
...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...