Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered one of the greatest living organists...
...Berlin's toughest, most vocal anti-Communist delegates. A resolution defying Sokolovsky's order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again." She, too, was beaten, but got away...
Eight thousand feet below, Pilot Earl Bach, plugging along toward Philadelphia in a DC-3, heard the radio exchange. At 12:33 Pilot Bach's ears were stung by another message from Pilot Warner. It was terse: "New York, New York, this is an emergency descent." Said Bach: "I could tell from the pilot's voice that they were in bad trouble...
Most-played violin piece: Bach's Chaconne from the Partita, in D Minor, which was sawed out 17 times in 109 violin recitals. Statistician Perkins found violinists more venturesome than pianists in programming contemporary music, but noted that both outdid orchestras in repeating war horses. The hardest-worked symphony of the season was a surprise: it was neither Beethoven's nor Tchaikovsky's Fifth, but Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (K.551), the "Jupiter...
Buxtehude: Organ Music (Carl Weinrich, organist; Musicraft, 8 sides). As a young man, Bach tramped 200 miles on foot to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play the organ. Some of the old master's music, here superbly played by Princeton's famed organist, shows some of the reasons why. Recording: good...