Word: bache
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nightclubs do not usually hire other people's halls to give public concerts, but last week one of them-Manhattan's "Cafe Society"-did exactly that. It hired Carnegie Hall. And it was the first time that nightclub entertainers had tried their hands so publicly on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert. The concert's label, "From Bach to Boogie-Woogie," accurately covered the efforts of the Negro Societarians...
...little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However...
Besides this year's performance, Koussevitsky conducted the joint choral group in a performance of the Missa in 1939 which has just been recorded. Bach's Mass in B minor and his St. Matthew's Passion have also been given in recent years...
...Bach: Concerto in C Major for Three Harpsichords and Strings (Manuel and Williamson Harpsichord Ensemble; Musicraft; 5 sides; $5). Top-drawer Bach recorded with harpsichords for the first time. But, as on earlier discs, these exquisitely cultivated Chicago harpsichordists leave out the oomph which was Bach...
...staves, and so could play regular two-staff clavier music. And to adopt a clavier composition for the modern organ, all that is needed is to transpose the bass for pedal board. . . . Tonight's program also includes the famous Vivaldi D-Minor Concerto arranged for organ by J. S. Bach, but long attributed, through some bungled manuscripts, to his son, William Friedemann Bach...