Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist...
...March, "Lorraine" Ganne *Overture, "Light Cavalry" Suppe *Indian Lament Dvorak-Kreisler *Rhapsody "Espana" Chabrier *A victory Ball Schelling Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchalkovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Strauss *Over There," World War Melody selection, "The Fighting Allies...
John H. Van Vleck for investigations in quantum mechanics; G. Wallace Woodworth to investigate the sources of Bach's styles in the music of the seventeenth century...
...course of the Philadelphia Orchestra's tour (TIME, April 27), Stokowski was swelling his purse by appearing with his men on the Kraft's Cheese hour, which is sent out from Hollywood with Crooner Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies. Stokowski's first offering was Bach's Siciliana, which prompted Crosby to comment: ''When it's like that I like Bach pretty good...
Although lost to the world for a period of 100 years, the priceless masterpiece was re-introduced by Mendelssohn at a concert in Berlin in 1829, precisely a century after its initial performance by Bach...