Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute...
...been playing Bach on the harpsichord in public for 46 years: the great Hungarian conductor, Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) had long ago punningly tagged her "The Bachante." And she had performed all of Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier last year in a series of Town Hall recitals to which her worshipful disciples-musicians, students and teachers alike-had flocked, music in hand. Some were occasionally surprised at her interpretations; Bach himself gave few hints of exactly how fast and how loud his music should be played. But few had failed to be impressed with her magnificent authority...
...right to paint on our walls, and they will tell our great story as it has not been told in 500 years." To those who would draw the line at the abstractionists he says: "Abstract art has as much a place in church as the organ music of Bach...
...pays more heed to the old world than to the new: more Titians than Trumbulls hang in its marbled halls. Musically, almost the reverse has been true since a tall, dark-haired young (34) conductor named Richard Bales took over the free gallery concerts six years ago. Bach and Beethoven are heard -but so are dozens of aspiring U.S. composers who seldom, if ever, get a hearing in Constitution or Carnegie halls...
...Stars Look Down. When Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749, German music was already entering its day of unparalleled glory (Bach, Handel and Haydn were living, Mozart and Beethoven were soon to come); by comparison, German poetry and drama were blank pages. "Had I been born an Englishman," Goethe once confessed, "and had all those numerous masterpieces (of Shakespeare's) been brought before me ... they would have overpowered me, and I should not have known what...