Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the well-to-do resort town of Carmel, Calif, has become a kind of Bayreuth of Bach. Last week Carmel again paid its tribute to the master with a full week of his music. A good many Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven...
...festival was started by two women, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, who went to Carmel for a vacation 24 years ago, and have been there ever since. They have sometimes lost money on the Bach festival, but make it up on a San Jose theatrical booking agency and a Monterey theater that they...
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in an all-Bach program: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in C Minor, Suite No. 1 in C Major, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra No. 2 in C Major. Soloists: Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff...
...music, shows a lack of discernment somewhere. Cesar Franck, a devout Catholic, wrote music whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only in good taste...
...Bach: Suites Nos. 2 & 3 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A proper and stately performance of two of the best of Bach's suites. Includes the familiar Air for the G String. Recording: good...