Word: bache
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Impartial observers reflected that if Bach's three-hour B Minor Mass could be played in a swing version it would be a triumph of Yankee ingenuity...
...Bach: Nine Chorale Preludes (Carl Weinrich. organist: Musicraft: 10 sides). On the 18th-Century-facsimile organ at Princeton's Westminster Choir School, Organist Weinrich revives Bach's Lutheran embroidery in all its original sparkle, clarity and color. One of the month's most notable...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...