Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...
...voices of the gospelers tell the story in their own words.* That way, by a frequent shift of voices, dramatic interest could be kept up, and the broadest sense of the witness could be conveyed." To connect, extend and impel the tragedy, he added the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Southern Symphony Orchestra (of Columbia, S.C.) in the Bach-Ormandy choral prelude, Sleepers Awake, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony and Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Carl Bamberger...
...Ravel, and even more strikingly, his Chopin have a neat, precise touch that makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former teacher. On the other hand, his beautiful feeling for the earlier composers. Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart--has been widely and justifiably acclaimed. He is already under contract to Columbia to record the complete works of Chopin. Also in the arduous process of reputation building is the Italian Arturo Benedetti-Michaclangelo. Although well beneath the level of Lipatti, he is a fine pianist...
...Contest in Geneva hands down over 150 other pianists. He is still studying--and his technique shows it occasionally--but from the point of view of interpretation of a wide variety of composers, his three concerts were the best I have heard on the Continent. From a lyrically beautiful Bach, to a Schumann with just the right blend of Classicism and Romanticism, to a mystically impressionistic Debussy, he displayed an understanding and taste that was, especially for a boy of 16, really amazing...