Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presenting a program which G. Wallace Woodworth described as "a grand cycle of moods," the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society adapted their voices to the "sacred joy" of Bach, the tense drama of Holst and Stravinsky, and the light "profane joy" of Lambert...
Featured on the same program will be "Hecuba's Lament" by Holt, two choruses from "Solomon" by Handel, and a chorus from Bach's 16th cantata...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
...Best in the world: Pablo Casals, who came out of his retirement briefly last year for the Bach festival at Prades (TIME, June...
This success is convincing advertisers that selling does not necessarily depend on repetition: when WXHR premiered the Pablo Casals Bach recordings, the sponsor paid for eight programs of approximately one hour with only short commercials at the beginning and end of each program...