Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting Bach and Saint-Saens...
...Orchestra will present Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, the Mozart Thirty-ninth Symphony, and the Sibelius First Symphony. Sander Shapiro '54, violinist, Daniel Pinkham, harpsichordiat, and Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson, flutists, are soloists...
...Bach, who was then (1934) Duquesne's coach, had relatives in Hibbing," Maras explains. "I got to know him, and decided to go to Duquesne...
...popular tune like All the Things You Are, Pianist Brubeck and Saxophonist Paul Desmond toss the theme back & forth for a while. Then, before long, the tune disappears and in its place, stream-of-consciousness style, come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close, his head weaves, and the music settles into...
...music and playing the piano at home in Concord, Calif, when he was four. Later he studied at Mills College in Oakland with Composer Darius Milhaud (who remembers him affectionately as a "good composer"), and worked at "counterpoint until it ran out of my ears." When listeners notice his Bach-like counterpoint and his big, polytonal chords, he says, "When I play jazz I am influenced by classical music. And when I compose I am influenced by jazz...