Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concert in 1929, bushy beloved Sir Henry Wood, famed English conductor, led his orchestra through Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in Moscow." clapped loud & long. The Klenovsky transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music...
...preparing for this week's commencement, to be followed by an ambitious two-day music festival. This year, above all others, they wanted to show what they could do. Their choir was building a reputation as the best choral organization in the U. S. And it had undertaken Bach's B Minor Mass, a stiff test for seasoned professionals. Besides, it wanted to show why it had been invited to Soviet Russia this summer as the first musical group to represent...
...earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote...
...March, "On the Mail" Goldman *Overture to, "The Bartered Bride" Smetana *Liebesfreud Kreisler *"Aida," Fantasia Vordi *Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz *Ave Maria Bach-Gounod *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *"Roberta," Selection Kern "Romance des Fleurs" Howard *Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn...
...University in Ithaca, N. Y. Last week the spring's proudest festivals were given in Bethlehem, Pa., and in Ann Arbor, Mich.- In Bethlehem the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed again to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Church, announced the beginning of two days of Bach. Philadelphia's Bruce Carey conducted, as he did last year after Death took kindly Fred Wolle. the Bethlehem native who in 1898 founded the Bach Festivals, made them bravely survive the invasion of steel. Conductor Carey used "Mr. Fred's" chorus composed of Lehigh Valley amateurs. Like...