Word: bache
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hymn-singers have glibly commented on the little town of Bethlehem, making a point of its quietude, its somnolence. These well-meaning vocalists, if endowed merely with the serviceable nasal sinuses of their kind, would never for a moment be tolerated in Bethlehem, Pa., where, last week, the annual Bach Festival* was given by community singers, assisted by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, directed by John Frederick Wolle...
Except for the distant roaring of the steel foundries of Charles M. Schwab, and the irreverent cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth...
...other years, the voices were unremarkable, the conducting was scholarly rather than inspired, the orchestration adequate rather than brilliant. As in other years, all who listened were impressed with the earnest intelligence of the performers, the remarkable community spirit that made the festival possible. Next day, Bach's famed Mass in B minor was given as a finale. Once again Bethlehem's choralists surmounted the immense technical difficulties of the score...
...program for the "Pops" Concert tonight follows: 1. Overture to "The Beautiful Gala-tea" Suppe 2. Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song" Strauss 3. Ave Maria Bach-Gounod (Solo violin, harp, organ and strings) 4. Dance of the Hours from "La Gicconda" Ponchielli 5. Suite Rameau-Mottl Minuet--Musette--Tambourin 6. Dubinushka Arranged by Jacchia 7. Chinese Dance Crist 8. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 9. Fantasia "II Trovatore" Verdi 10. Hindu Song Rimsky-Korsakoff 11. Military March Schubert-Jacchia
...Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian...