Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained French, as the country itself has remained a French province ..." His father, Ernest Munch, was organist at Strasbourg, professor at its Conservatory, and founder of the celebrated choir of St. Guillaume. The organist of that church at one time was Albert Schweitzer, author of the great work on Bach. He is a relative and close friend of Munch, and participated in the eight-day Bach Festival at Strasbourg which Munch conducted in June...
Last week, for the first time, Manhattan critics got to hear Koussy's wonder boy. For his Town Hall debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more...
Jazz concerts, which most ambitious bandleaders now aspire to, were out, as far as he was concerned. Bebop, the newest fad in such concerts, left him cold. "Hell, Bach did more bebop in one piece than those guys have ever done." Still, he couldn't quite see his reddish-brown hair at Carnegie-Hall length either; the audiences there were "too special, too chi-chi." He settled on a middle solution: playing Carnegie-Hall stuff for a bebop public. He foresaw that it would be a little "like attacking the Great Wall of China with a nail file." Last...
...have been back to Harvard many times since 1942. The most memorable visit occurred last spring when they played Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart for three nights in a row. Schneider appeared by himself this fall to play, unforgettably, Bach's six sonatas for unaccompanied violin...
...compete satisfactorily with the violin. Nevertheless, while being true to the music by using the harpsichord rather than the piano which dominated the nineteenth century, they have not weakened the violin proportionately. Schneider uses a straight bow with taut hairs rather than the arched, loose-haired bow to which Bach was accustomed. Even with this slight exception, however, it is undoubtedly true that the two give the most precise demonstration to be found anywhere of the complete understanding which Bach had for the possibilities of the instruments...