Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna by F. G. Bach and Dr. D. J. Heilpern, already in use at the University of Vienna's Wenckel Bach Clinic...
...years." The student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done by all and hence might be termed the platitude of music. If we speak of rules being broken by Bach or Beethoven, we are strengthening the popular misconception that the rules were made for composers to follow, whereas the process is just the opposite...
...book consists largely of examples drawn from many composers from Bach to Cesar Franck. These examples are chosen with a keen sense of the aptness in illustrating a given point. They are all interesting in themselves as music and bear witness to Professor Piston's wide and discriminating knowledge of musical literature. The analytical comment is brief but always keen, lucid and consistent with the principles laid down at the beginning. Among the examples there are not only many short excerpts but ten complete compositions showing the relation of chords to an entire piece...
...Glee Club and the Choral Society will give together "O Fons Bandusiae," a Horatian ode set to music by Randall Thompson '20, "John Brown's Song," by Delancy, the "Gesang der Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...seventh Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was dedicated to the memory of the late President Charles William Eliot, the father of these local concerts. For this occasion an orthodox programme of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, President Eliot's favorite composers, was played. Again we enjoyed the invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto, a favorite of all musicians and music-lovers. If we should desire to quibble, we might suggest a bit quicker tempo for the last movement, but let it suffice to say that Father Bach himself could hardly have given a more full-blooded and flowing performance. The Unfinished...