Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Among his innovations were the great annual Easter performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and foreign tours for which the Concertgebouw is famed...
...Bach: Toccatas and Fugues, Volume 1 (Carl Weinrich; Musicraft, 8 sides). A re-issue of Princeton's famed organist playing some of the best Bach properly-with the shapely lines of the polyphony brought out sharply. In another good Bach album out this month (Technichord, 8 sides), Organist Ernest White plays the eight "Little" Preludes and Fugues. Recordings: good...
...teacher didn't like the piano piece that the eight-year-old boy had written. Said she, puzzled and reproving: "There's no music like this." Little Alan Hovhaness, who knew better, replied triumphantly, "Bach did it that...
Since then, Composer Hovhaness, now a tall, cadaverous 37, has left Bach behind and discovered what he calls a "pathway to the lost music of the ancient world." In Boston he writes music that might have been composed 2,000 years ago in his father's native Armenia...
...something of a formality to add that Kirkpatrick, on the harpsichord, and Schneider, on the violin, performed with unusual sensitivity and balance. Harpsichord or no harpsichord, Mozart, Bach, and Scarlatti can sound as they did last week only when played by uncommonly fine artists...