Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inhabitants of the quietly arty little town of Carmel, Calif, were enjoying their annual festival of music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Climax of the festival was to have been the unveiling in Carmel's city park of Sculptor Bufano's 14-ft. cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said...
Instrumental music during the summer will be under the direction of Mr. Malcolm H. Holmes, Conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra. The Orchestra will present an informal program of music by Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi on Thursday evening, July 23, and will join with the Summer School Chorus in the joint concert on Tuesday evening, August...
...Harvard, Radcliffe, or Wellesley College Orchestra are requested to bring their instruments to the registration. A number of string and wind instruments will also be available without charge to students not owning their own. Planists will be given an opportunity to play in the clavier concerti of Bach or the continue parts of various eighteenth-century composers...
Malcolm H. Holmes, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will then conduct the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in five orchestral selections: Sinfonia, "To Thee Alone be Glory," by Bach; Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, Minuet: Allegretto, by Mozart; Polka from "The Bartered Bride," by Smetana; Polka from "The Golden Age," by Shostakovitch; and March from "Peter and the Wolf," by Prokoflef...
...Mammy Grayson croons a pair of standout melodies (Goin' To Chicago and Only Worry For a Pillow), and the picture's other Negro artists are first-rate- especially a young Negro boy with a trumpet, knee-deep in Bach at a New Orleans music academy. He loathes the formalized Bach exercises, wants to play his kind of music. After a few bars he does, riding away, loud and low, right out of the academy...