Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
Carl Weinrich, the American organist, is scheduled to give a program of early organ music at the Germanic Musecum tonight. This means that the Bach organ is about to undergo its christening at the hands of great master of the instrument...
...program, classifiable as a lesson in early organ music, leafs through representative compositions from the works of three generations of organisits--Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach. Sweelinck, the wonder of his age, who toured Europe triumphantly performing on the organ and clavichord, has long been relegated to a musty pigeonhole in the history of music. Musicologists credit him with having been the first organist to use the pedal independently, as a separate voice in a fugue, Sweelinck's own editors claim for him the distinction of having "founded" instrumental music, but rarely if ever is his fine body...
...same is true, to a lesser extent, of Bach's great idol and older contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude. He has been so cozily dove-tailed as an "influence" that no one finds time to re-examine the traditional dictum and set him back on his pins as a composer in his own right. My personal feeling is that once exhumed, such a piece of Buxtehude's music as the Toccata in F that Weinrich is playing will be enjoyed by a good many people for its directness and simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time...
...have to go into verbosities about the greatness of the Bach music on the program--the Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, the 5th Trio Sonata, and a group of Choral Preludes. They have ranked as works of genius ever since they were composed, and will continue...