Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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November 12, E. Power Biggs; November 19, Biggs; December 3, Carl McKinley; January 21, Miss Helen Hewitt; March 17, Mrs. Ruth Connision Morize; April 7, William Self; May 5, Professor Davison. Fugue in D-major Bach Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Bouree Handol Symphonic Romane Widor
...reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls and over...
...print in the 15th Century, it became an elaborate affair with as many as three keyboards and 25 pedals to give a great variety of tone quality and volume. Nevertheles the harpsichord with its thin, clear tone required a much more delicate touch than the piano, invented in 1711. Bach knew of the piano but thought it an unmusical contraption. He wrote such great works as the Goldberg Variations for the harpsichord. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was actually intended to tinkle along on the harpsichord but in his last sonatas he was the first composer to utilize the vast dynamics...
...Service to modest, greying Widow Florence Guggenheim. Turning from her toward the audience and the band, the Mayor said: "Tonight you have heard and enjoyed, with the added opportunity to observe, the very acme of perfection in band music. When it is possible for a band to render a Bach fugue, then I want to congratulate you, Maestro Goldman, and your musicians. Just imagine Sebastian Bach hearing an organ, and back of every key a human being. If he could have heard it performed here tonight he would have said: 'That is what I intended...
...better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes such rarities as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bach's Phobus and Pan, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona...