Word: bache
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston went on a pianistic spree over the week end, with Mr. Bauer and Mr. Grainger conducting the celebrations. The latter gave a recital Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, of which it is hard to speak moderately. Playing the Chopin B minor sonata, a Bach prelude and fugue, Schumann's Symphonic Studies, and Balakirev's Islamey, he proved himself to be a skilled pianist and musician, truly worthy of being classed with the greatest. His playing of the Bach fugue drew enthusiasm even from the most skeptical, who were...
...program follows: Prelude and Fugue in D minor Bach Elevazione Zipoli Pavane Byrd Gagliado Schmid Adagio (Sixth Symphony) Widor Menuet Gothique Boellmarn Choral Improvisations Karg-Elert a. Jesu Geh Voran b. Est ist der Hell uns Kommen her. Tocate (Fifth Symphony) Widor
...Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription of Bach's English suite in A minor, originally written for the harpsichord, is a pianoforte rendering of that music...
...with ourselves the rest of the day ?' Some would bore themselves watching football games for twelve hours a day. Others would think they could enjoy themselves listening to classical music the rest of the time, but I can tell them that they would loathe the name of Bach after a fortnight...
Among the selections on the program are Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G Major, and the Finale from Guilmant's first sonata...