Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday's opening program David Gross '60 will perform as the feature work the first movement from Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Opus 57, the Apassionata. Other words will be: Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor; Brahms, Intermezzo in E, Opus 118 # 2. Landon Young '58 of Adams House will perform Schumann's Symphonic Etudes on Tuesday, April...
...Sunday night Leverett House commemorated its 25th Anniversary with a beguiling program of widely assorted music. The first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg...
...performance, some over the radio by fans. The Maestro listened to every taped version, gave qualified approval to the most acceptable, and indicated what passages from other versions he wanted substituted. In some cases he demanded only one or two inserts. But before he would approve a performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto in F, engineers had to make more than 100 splices in less than eight minutes of music. The recordings are therefore not so much historically accurate Toscanini performances as they are showpieces which indicate what kind of performance the Maestro would have liked to achieve...
...concert by the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, conducted by Daniel R. Pinkham, Jr. '44, will be held in the dining hall at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The program will include works by two former House members, Pinkham and Robert Moevs '42, as well as by Pezel, Bach, Mendelssohn, Abel, and Purcell...
...seat hall). Dean Paul A. McGhee of N.Y.U.'s Division of General Education hopes to enlarge the series further by 1958, believes there is an audience for chamber music in lower Manhattan. This week at N.Y.U., the Totenberg Instrumental Ensemble, headed by distinguished Violinist Roman Totenberg, will play Bach, Hindemith's Trauermusik,. Vivaldi's Winter Concerto (from the Four Seasons...