Word: bach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standard baroque trio sonata, we think. Telemann or perhaps one of the Bach sons. But it's over in a flash. Segue to standard piano Muzak, sounds like something familiar. Unbelievable--it's Bryan Adams' "I Do it for You." (Vomiting ensues...
...Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. But in his wide-ranging study, where influences are as shrewdly detected as innovations, he illuminates the musical sensibilities of a great many composers. For instance, "That music should be completely audible was as obvious to Mozart as it was irrelevant for Bach," Rosen observes. And, "It has taken more than a century to realize that it is not Berlioz's oddity but his normality, his ordinariness, that makes him great...
...service, attended by about 400 alumni and their guests, began with Bach's "Prelude & Fugue in A Minor" and a greeting given by Reverend Charles E. Carlston...
During the service, the congregation sang the hymns "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past," "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." The Commencement Choir sang Bach's "Dona Nobis Pacem" and Thompson's "Alleluia...
...birthday, Stevens was on hand to see the Babe finally earn a measure of academic respect. Indeed - -with 26 panel discussions ranging from "Whitmanesque Hero" to "What Would Ruth Earn Today?" -- Hofstra University accorded the slugger the same reverence it has given the likes of James Joyce and Bach at similar symposiums. "He would have been pleased," said Ruth's grandson. "He might also have been a little bored...