Word: bach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...
Last weekend, the Handel & Haydn Society, a Boston-based period orchestra, hosted the Modern Jazz Quartet at Symphony Hall. The groups offered three performances of Bach Variations, a concert designed to harmoniously integrate Bach and blues...
Christopher Hogwood, the artistic director of the baroque society, explained that Bach Variations was "part of [the Society's] exotic programming" and effort to incorporate various branches of music into one mellifluous concert...
...Bach Variations deserved the benefit of the doubt; the proof would lie in the performance...
...Society, with Linda Quan on violin and Hogwood conducting from his harpsichord, opened the program harmlessly enough with Bach's Sinfonia in F, BWV 1046a...