Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julian Sebastian Bach...
...remainder of the program consists of "The Tragedy of Salome," by Florent Schmitt, noted modern French composer, and Metropoulos's own arrangement for orchestra of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for organ. The former was composed near the turn of the century and was intended to accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture...
...Thursday evening Dr. Koussevitsky will lead the Boston Symphony at Sanders Theater in Cambridge. The program is to embrace two Bach preludes arranged by Pick-Managiagalli; Edward Burlingame Hill's "Lilacs"; "Pohjola's Daughter" the colorful symphonic Fantasia by Jan Sibelius, and in conclusion the Second Symphony in D major of Johannes Brahms. Thursday evening will also offer a duet recital at Jordan Hall by Eleanor Steele, soprano and Hall Clovis, tenor. The program will include well known songs of Schubert and Schumann...
...regular Friday afternoon and Saturday evening Symphony Hall concerts will offer a varied program embracing the two above mentioned Bach preludes; Beethoven's Symphony number six, the "Pastoral"; a new score, "Danza," by John Alden Carpenter; Debussy's "L' Apres'Midi d'un Faun"; the scherzo to Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and the prelude to Wagner's "Meistersinger...
...afternoon exercises the club will sing with a group from the Graduate Schools, and in the evening they will join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in singing portions of Bach's B Minor Mass under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky at Symphony Hall...