Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conductor, seated at the Baldwin in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, looked at the greying, dignified man on his left and the professional fellow in horn-rimmed glasses on his right, both seated at Stein-ways. Then Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played...
...audience in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del GesÙ violin. In that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
...emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...
...Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra will combine tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre for their annual Christmas Concert. The program will include the American premiere of the entr'acte music from Mozart's Thomas, Konig in Aegypten...
Other featured compositions are Bach's Cantata 192, Nun Danket Alle Gott; Marc Antoine Charpentiers' Messe de Minuit; and several traditional French Christmas carols...