Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destiny as a musical centre might have been thwarted when Steel intervened. Instead, no less a tycoon than Charles Michael Schwab boosted it and it was an outgrowth of the same Moravian choir which, more than 100 years later, gave the first complete U. S. performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's supreme Mass in B Minor. Now Bethlehem is as much Bach's as Steel...
...24th recurrence of this most unique of U. S. music festivals, crowds flocked to Bethlehem last week, paid admission to the Packer Memorial Church at Lehigh University.? The program this year consisted of ten of the 267 chorale-cantatas written by Bach during his Leipzig cantorship (an average of one a month). And, as always, the great Mass in B Minor. Soloists for the cantatas and the Mass were Sopranos Ernestine Hohn-Eberhard and Esther Dale, Contralto Mabel Beddoe, Tenors Arthur Kraft and Arthur Hackett, Bassos Charles T. Tittman and Robert M. Crawford and Organist T. Edgar Shields...
...Mass. It is doubtful if Bach, an ardent Lutheran, ever intended his monumental Mass to be given in the Catholic Church. Nor was it practical because of its great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary...
...Conductor. For the Bethlehem Bach Festivals, particularly for the annual presentations of the great Bach Mass, all credit is due Director John Frederick Wolle. Like Bach, Director Wolle comes from a long line of musical ancestors. His great-grandfather and his grandfather were organists in the church at Bethlehem. His father was a clergyman, a botanist. When Director "Fred" had his choice
...college or an apprenticeship in the local drugstore he chose the drugstore because it gave him more time for music. Later, in Germany, he became imbued with the spirit of Bach, and when he returned to Bethlehem and became organist at the Moravian Church, it was with the idea of making Bach's music known there. Today the Bethlehem performances under Wolle are the object of a national pilgrimage...