Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world." He likes Manchester: "There is not much social life. It gives you time to work." He concentrates on young people, tries to convince them "that it's jazz that's sissy and the real he-man stuff is Beethoven and Bach." One-third of his audiences are 18 or under. Says Barbirolli: "If Frank Sinatra can have his bobby-sox brigade...
...Boston Symphony began its concert in Sanders Theater Tuesday night with C. P. E. Bach's Concerto in D Major for Strings. This is one of the many Thoroughbass pieces that Koussevitsky has had orchestrated, and it is never a surprise to find one starting a concert. But you might well ask why it was put on this program; it was no preparation for Irving Fine's new Toccata Concentrate which followed...
Virtuoso violinists frequently play excerpts from Bach's Partitas and Sonatas for violin Alone as encores. Seldom are they ambitions enough to plan programs which include he whole set. But Alexander Schneider is doing just that in Sanders Theater under the auspices of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. He played three last night; tonight he will do the rest...
Alexander Schneider, violinist, will bring a program of Bach to Sanders Theater at 8:30 tonight. Schneider will play the Sonata in G minor, the Partita in B minor, and the Sonata in A minor, all scored for single violin...
...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...