Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work in 1962. To study the piece, Eto had to transcribe it from piano to tape recorder to Braille. "Much work," he sighs. Eto hopes that other composers will be inspired to write other concertos for the koto, which he feels harbors possibilities still unexplored. "If only Beethoven and Bach had known about the koto," he says. "But we must start somewhere. We have to catch...
Five of the University winners are undergraduates: Donald N. Bach of Eliot House and San Diego, Calif.; Ben W. Heineman, Jr., of Leverett House and Chicago; Robert H. Knapp, Jr., of Eliot House and New York City; Merle McClung of Kirkland House and Montevideo, Minn.; and Richard P. Sorensen of Eliot House and Salt Lake City...
INSTRUMENTAL: Pieces often played by students reveal unsuspected subtleties as Glenn Gould makes eloquent the several voices in Bach's Two-and Three-Part Inventions (Columbia) and Artur Rubinstein turns Chopin's Waltzes into lilting, sparkling poems (RCA Victor). Sviatoslav Richter makes Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasia sing (Angel), and John Browning premieres what may become one of tomorrow's classics, though not too different from yesterday's: Samuel Barber's 1962 Piano Concerto (Columbia...
...tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What I do is comparable to the improvisations of a good jazz...
Charles P. Price, University Preacher, will lead the services, with carols and anthems sung by the the University Choir under the direction of John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster. The program includes works by Bach Praetorius, Distler, Sweelinck, Britten, Billings, Welsh, and Holst...