Word: bache
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the music of Bach and Mozart is "pluck-a-pluck" when played on the instruments for which it was written is as pointless as to say that of Liszt is "crash-a-crash." The whole article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...hear all through the season, choral programs are extremely rare in Cambridge. This week, however, two long concerts of vocal music will be given here. Tomorrow evening the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras will perform jointly a program made up of accompanied choruses by Bach, Handel, and Dargomyzhski; works by Bach, Purcell and Beethoven for orchestra, and a group of traditional songs for chorus alone...
...Bach-"If you can play Bach, you can play anything...
...Bach: Toccatas and Fugues for Organ (Carl Weinrich; Musicraft: 8 sides). On a new facsimile Bach-style organ in Princeton, N. J., able Organist Weinrich plays Bach, Bach-style. Careful transcription makes it the best of its kind on records...
...harpsichord, which looks like an incubator-baby-grand piano and sounds like a choir of mandolins, was once the most important of concert instruments. Before it was ousted (at the beginning of the 19th Century) by the louder and more flexible modern piano, composers like Bach and Handel wrote sheaves of compositions for it. Even Beethoven turned out a batch of sonatas for the harpsichord. Today, harpsichord playing occupies the position that falconry does in the field of sports. And most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano. But today's handful of harpsichordists...