Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden. I wrote - just like that -two pages of fugue motifs. The last one, which irritated...
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting; with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor, Harold Williams, bass-baritone; Columbia, 32 sides). It was Mendelssohn who revived Bach's great St. Matthew Passion 100 years after it was written. Now, 100 years after Mendelssohn's death, his own choral masterpiece, a work of simplicity and directness, gets an excellent performance on records. Recording: good...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189. "Meine Seele unhint und preist," by Bach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist: Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenado a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
...pieces--a prelude and allegro by Couperin and an organ fugue of Bach--were played in modern orchestrations--by Milhaud and Williams respectively. Music critics of good taste have for years been screaming at conductors like Stokowski and Koussevitsky not to distort Bach, but when the orchestration is done by composers of the calibre of Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with...
...Choral Society will concentrate on works of Bach and American folk songs...