Word: bache
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...
...Swedish-American family of five on a modest salary as professor of music at Lindsborg's Bethany College, has led all of Lindsborg's Messiahs since 1915. A simple, religious man, whose hobby is gardening, Dr. Brase sleeps little spends his nights mostly poring over scores by Bach and Handel. Says he: "There will never be time enough in this world or the next to plumb the depths of the great masterpieces they have given...
When Oscar Bruno Bach was 18 he made a finely wrought metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII's study. A native of Germany but a longtime resident of Manhattan, Oscar B. Bach is, according to the current Iron Age, "probably the foremost metal craftsman of this country." He has done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless...
...first patents, issued to Columbia University's crack Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink in 1933, has never been industrially developed. Researchers of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. are reported to have hit on a promising technique, but they are keeping it under wraps for the present. Mr. Bach, skeptical of patent protection, kept mum about his method for quite a while...
...program that has been arranged is a varied one. Hindemith's "Martins Lied" will open the concert, to be followed by "Kyrie Eleison" from Bach's Mass in B Minor. The joint singing will be closed with Beethoven's "Eulogy." After this, the Radcliffe Choral Society will end the concert with Allegri's "Miserere...