Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...
...When Bach worked a theme on the letters of his name into the unfinished Piece 19 (alias Jesus Laid in the Sepulcher), I half expected Miss Boron to claim that the interruption was Bach's way of paraphrasing Shakespeare's Antony, "My heart is in the coffin there with Jesus, and I must pause till it come back...
...compensate for the lack of an ending, an extraneous chorale-prelude, "Vor deinen Thron," was appended when The Art of Fugue was published after Bach's death. But Miss Boron states that it is "a significantly integral part of The Art of Fugue," although the chorale is in the key of G and all the other pieces...
...Bach specified no medium for the work, and I shall not go into the question of whether it ought to be played on the organ. Miss Boron had obviously practiced hard for many months on her own edition for organ; but in the end it was clear that the work was far beyond her technique, and should not have been attempted in public...