Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark little man with a Russian face and an American name began to fiddle his way into the big money. Critics on two continents praised young Alexander ("Sasha") Culbertson for his silky tones, liked him best in Bach. But Sasha was not satisfied with himself. In 1926 he canceled 31 U. S. engagements, broke a contract to make phonograph records, sailed for Europe. In Paris he settled down with his bride of two years to study all over again. There and in Berlin he worked hard, eked out a meager living from music lessons. Last week he walked timidly onto...
...blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed in every bar an uncanny knowledge of each instrument's value. Emotional people, who like music to conjure pictures for them, protested that he was incomprehensible. Stravinsky replied that he was "objective...
...Hall, the new chamber music group organized by Bernard Zighera is to give its second concert. The remarkable program opens with Haydn's "La Reine" Symphony and continues with a Concerto for Strings written by the modern composer Jereszy Fitelberg. Bartlett and Robertson, two piano artists, are to play Bach's Concerto in C minor and Mozart's Concerto in E flat, and the concert concludes with d'Indy's Concerto for piano,l flute, cello, and string orchestra. This promises to be a very unusual and worth-while evening...
...open the program the Glee Club will sing the Bach Choral. "Awake Thou Wintry Earth", followed by the madrigal "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley. Third comes an Italian student song "Nu Semmo Tri Duttur", by Bazchieri...
...program which includes selections from the works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner, will be featured by the playing of Parry's Jerusalem accompanied by the Pomfret School Glee Club. The program follows: Overture to Egment Beethoven Tower Music (for brass instruments only) Pezel Mozart Symphony -- First Five Movements March from Tannhauser Wagner Choral Prelude Bach Jerusalem Parry