Word: bach
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...Bach Society Orchestra. Works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovitch and Tchaikowsky. Cellist Andres Diaz winner of the 1986 Naumberg International Cello Competition, will perform. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $10 for general admission; $6 for students. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door. The Concert. Featuring the RadcliffePitches, the Yale Whiffenpoofs and the HarvardKrokodiloes. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. $10/$12 forgeneral admission; $5/$7 for students. Tickets areavailable at the Sanders Theatre box office andthe Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
...like violinist Gidon Kremer, Schnittke, 58, has a firm grasp of structure, a masterly hand with orchestration and, most important, a distinctive, expressive voice. A new London/Decca recording of Schnittke's Concerti Grossi Nos. 3 and 4 displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar in both...
Unpretentious and genuinely bold, the concert brought an immediacy to classical music rarely evident in performances of Bach or Beethoven. Upcoming concerts of the Music Department and the Harvard Group for New Music merit attention from the Harvard community...
...English novel, for example, is devoted to Charles Dickens. There is scarcely a word about Anthony Trollope, a writer of smaller genius, perhaps, but whose insightful portrayals of women and politics nonetheless make him seem prophetically modern. Boorstin's account of Protestant sacred music understandably focuses on Johann Sebastian Bach. But why, some readers may wonder, are there only passing references to Handel...
...Pierre-Remy Houssin, a National Assembly Deputy, welcomed 49 Bavarians last week to "a Musical Encounter" in his village of Baignes. The Germans, from Baignes' sister city of Dietramszell, near Munich, brought three kegs of beer and played brassy tunes, while the French choir chimed in with Mozart and Bach. Houssin told the Germans that he opposes Maastricht. "The best way to fall down stairs is to run up four steps at a time," he joked. But the Bavarians hardly seemed to mind. "Maastricht is a bad program," said Hans Gams, 21, a farmworker. "We are fighting for our existence...