Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
...outstanding characteristics of the Bach-type organ are brilliance of tone, clear definition of the various musical parts, absence of the variously colored orchestral effects prized by "romantic" organists...
...vast majority of church organists who cannot bear the cinemorgans but will make discreet use of the variously colored "romantic" effects possible on all modern-style organs. Third are the growing number of classicists, who favor the 17th-Century style of organ used by the great Johann Sebastian Bach - and who make modern-style organs sound as much as possible like Bach organs, or play instruments made on 17th-Century lines...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...
Three choruses from the Bach "Mass in B Minor," which the combined choruses sang in its entirety to a sold-out Symphony Hall on Sunday, April 30, under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, will open tonight's concert. With Paul D. Tibbetts '45 taking the baritone solo three choruses from Brahm's "Requiem" will conclude the program...