Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Fishback began his course last September, he got his recruits to agree to stick with it for a whole school year do prescribed reading and field studies, hold an open meeting about once a month, keep minutes for analysis. With S.I.U.'s Educational Research Director Jacob Bach to help him make the rounds, Fishback is often on the road three nights a week. He encourages boards to define their duties and powers, patiently coaches them on such matters as public relations, budgets, expanded school facilities, staffs...
Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
...Reynolds is a rather young, man, and seemed quite nervous at the beginning of his recital. The opening Bach selections were marred by wrong notes and general muddiness, but the three Chorale-Preludes which followed sounded much clearer and more relaxed...
...program opened with two chorale-preludes by Bach, neither of which made any great technical demands, Beyer easily solved the major interpretive problem of emphasizing the chorale melodies without obliterating the important supplementary material...
...choice of the music, the authenticity of the performance style, and the general excellence of the performances. Monday's program consisted chiefly of four concertigrossi...two by Corelli, the composer who crystallized the concerto grosso form near the end of the 17 century, and two by Handel who with Bach brought the form to its highest development before it continued its evolution toward the concerto as we know it today...