Word: bache
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation. I have always been fascinated by the fact that for some reason (ostensibly because of the political connotations of the art form), rock musicians have never been considered genuine artists--of the same order as a Casals, a Picasso, a Rubinstein, or (God forbid) a Beethoven or a Bach. Yet I would suggest that the work of the Dead compare favorably with the work of any of these. Listen to the early recordings. For the last six years, every concert something else--a musical manifestation of a unique juncture in time and space, with thematic relevance to all others...
...last four times I've gone to the symphony I've pined in my seat wistfully hoping for an original and not simply creatively interpretive (whatever that means) statement from the orchestra. Could you get into a tape of a jam featuring Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms, just to see what they might have come up with, had they ever gotten it on together...
...Bach society has a Stravinsky concert in the works, but the HRO beat them to it by playing the brilliant Symphonies of Wind Instruments, composed in 1920. Stravinsky employs masses of sound from the brasses (much the way Janacek does in the Sinfonietta) set against tight harmonies in the woodwinds. The result is a kind of Debussy with metallic colors. The rapt attention of the inactive string players on stage was ample testimony to the rendition...
...only flaw in programming was the dull Bach Cantata No. 51. Not even a magnificent trumpet obbligato part could redeem the initial aria. Joan Heller, the soprano soloist,' has a beautiful voice remarkable for its evenness. Her diction was good and one could only wish for more variation in dynamics. It was a mistake to use a harpsichord against the full string body: Gerald Moshell pushed the instrument as much as possible and all it produced was a distracting non-tonal jangle. With smaller forces, though, it was quite adequate; and the continuo playing included some appropriate ritards...
...right, because once the artists are up there in front of the public, corruption disappears." BEING 75: "One of the nice things is that you don't have to go out so much. You can be very close to composers like Beethoven and Mozart and Bach, Haydn and Schumann, but that doesn't mean you have to run uptown all the time to hear them played. They're in the mind, like your grandmother...