Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bach Festival Society (Sat. 12:15 p.m., NBC). B Minor Mass with 150-voice choir, organ and orchestra...
...walked briskly to the piano, bald head gleaming under the lights, bowed with almost perfunctory politeness, and sat down. For a full two minutes he peered with patient poise around the hall until his matinee audience settled down into pin-drop silence. Then he began to play the magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy...
Karl Kohn, piano, and Robert Ritzenheim, violin, will give a concert of violin sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, and Faure in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room tomorrow. The performance, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin...
...carnival king. From its cross-section membership in the past had come Mardi Gras kings who were porters, shopkeepers and undertakers, but Trumpeter Armstrong was big-time royalty, even a world figure. Many jazz experts, who can be as snooty and esoteric as existentialists or the followers of a Bach cult, solemnly hail him as the greatest musical genius the U.S. has ever produced...
...Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Not the most inspired of the six Brandenburgs, but here given an inspiring performance. Recording: good...