Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety of the building his disposition finds more equable surroundings. To his class in Music 4 he simplifies and explains the technicalities of the great composers from Bach to Stravinsky. To accomplish this, he uses both his skill as a pianist and his serious, but rather whimsical, method of lecturing. The result is a satisfactory course for men who want to gain an appreciation of music. He may be criticized for his lack of poise on the lecture platform, which characterizes a Merriman' or an Kittredge, but his fortunately is subsidiary part of his teaching...
...entertained at his Trail Street home goes on forced tours to the newly constructed Plant Room or to the outside gardens. His success as a guest may be measured by his reaction to the plants. Even music has taken second place and the contrapuntal devices of a Bach fugue give way at any moment to the ever-present weeds in the garden. In fact the whole house had become garden conscious...
...Bach Cantata Club, conducted by Mrs. Langdon Warner and Mr. Bernard C. Jones, will give a concert in the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock. Tickets can be secured on request at the museum. In addition to Bach, selections by Palestrina, Holst, and Handel are on the program...
...music and wishes to learn something about its technical side, Music 4 supplies the answer. Since men who are concentrating in music are not required to take this course, Professor Ballantine has not been restricted by department requirements. One hears representative music from almost every composer of note from Bach to Stravinsky. Analysis of the forms and methods of composition comprise most of the material for study...
Following the intermission, we turned with pleasure to Brahms, Beethoven, and Bach. With the Chorus, we trembled before the Fates (Gesang der Parzen--Brahms) and felt the triumph of Revelation (Nun ist das Heil--Bach). We offer it as our opinion that in "Elegischer Gesang" (Beethoven) we heard the best and most delightful singing of the afternoon; here were best displayed those tricks of choral technique for which the choruses most diligently strive; here, too, was the most perfect balance between the chorus and orchestra...