Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its number of informal madrigal groups, the University has rarely boasted a permanent ensemble devoted to chamber-size choral music. But from casual origins several years ago, the Bach Society Chorus of the Music Club has gradually come to fill this...
INTRODUCTORY MUSIC: "It is usually desirable to have 15 or 20 minutes of introductory music." Sample selections: Handel's Largo, Bach's Come Sweet Death...
...Bach Society Orchestra, a group composed chiefly of undergraduates and conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, gave its debut concert Sunday evening. The audience, which filled Paine Hall, expressed enthusiastic approval of this ambitious and well planned venture...
...spite of its name, however, the Orchestra showed little affinity for the performance of Baroque music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 fared somewhat better than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
...played the piano in local joints and studied with France's famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn't stick to jazz, I'd be working out of my own field and not taking advantage of my American heritage." Searching Dave Brubeck found a goal: to show that jazz is music...