Word: bach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communists, who have extradited a good many famed and foreign dead, were now serving a summons on Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Potsdam, one Dr. Ernst Meyer, professor of "music-sociology" in the east zone's Humboldt University, observed the 200th anniversary of Bach's death with a speech entitled "Bach and Social Cohesion." The title was barely out of his mouth when one listener piped up, "What has that to do with Bach?" When Dr. Meyer remarked that Thuringia-born Bach was nowhere honored as much as in the Soviet Union, another bellowed, "Aha! we knew this was coming." More than 100, who had come to hear Bach's music, walked...
...Manhattan's station WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own recordings of Bach music, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, and will accept a $1 bill in payment...
...only hope is "to make Bach available to more people." Explained Stokowski: "Bach lived all his life on the edge of starvation. I have the thought that somewhere in America is a great artist who is similarly unrecognized. I am saying that we have to remember our artists. That is the thought in the back of my mind...
...Door in the Walls. Those who were going home would take with them unforgettable memories of Prades and the little man who, to honor Bach, had broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain. Said Oboist Marcel Tabuteau: "It is not possible to believe what Casals does with a bow. There has never been anyone like him." For voluble young Violinist Isaac Stern, Casals had "opened a door in the walls-our conventional conceptions of music-and showed us how we can go beyond without losing respect...