Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lucie Bigelow Rosen, wife of the New York banker, Walter T. Rosen '94, faces a small, compact box in the courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock, her audience will hear strains of Debussy and Bach apparently materializing from thin...
...office employes, an advertisement was published six days before the concert to say that all seats in Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic William J. Henderson in the New York Sun: "He plays not like a boy but like a man. . . . One can unhesitatingly say that he is already one of the violinists whose...
...Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
About 60 men will sing in each concert but no programs for any of these engagements have been released. Bach's Mass in B Minor will be given by the Glee Club and the Choral Society on Sunday, May 5, and the same organizations will present Handel's "Solomon" on Tuesday, April 30. Both concerts will be given in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...