Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three foreign-born piano teachers were only casual acquaintances in Europe, and they had not met in the U.S. until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...
...Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...
Berlin likes General Education, but hopes it will never have a faculty of its own. He respects the graduate school system and thinks that more should be done in England in that direction. Lastly he praises Harvard's "universal passion for music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven everywhere--wonderful." But Isaiah Berlin is going back to let the hostesses of London tear each other part over him and teach philosophy at Oxford...
Starting at 7 p.m. with an excerpt from a Bach Cantats, the singers will give eight selections before being joined by the student body for the traditional college songs. The Glee Club program will feature two American folk songs and the opening scene from Verdi's Otello...
...Norwegian share the rambling classrooms under the eaves on the third floor with the microphones and wire recorders of Professor Packard's speech department. The second floor is inhabited by an organ, one of the few in the country whose sound approaches that of the type used by Bach. The organ got there rather fortuitously its designer, in casting about for a place with the proper acoustics, happened upon the Museum, and found that its acoustics were perfect, although the building had not been constructed with music in mind. So the organ was deposited there on permanent loan, and performances...