Word: bache
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions on radio, records and in concerts for 40 years; after an operation for bleeding ulcers; in Boston. Born in England and first trained as an electrical engineer, Biggs "instinctively" moved to the U.S. in 1929. He disapproved of florid romanticism and played modern U.S. composers as well as Bach, Handel and Mozart in his reserved baroque style. An expert on the classic organs built centuries ago, he traveled throughout Europe to find instruments on which to play the music originally written for them...
...Bolton Hill String Quartet performs selections from Bach's Art of the Fugue, along with chamber music of Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms. Kirkland...
...Bach Society Orchestra conducted by Kip Wilkins '78 features Richard Kogan '77 playing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto. Concert also includes Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Bartok's Divertimento for Strings. Pre-concert prelude (8 pm) will consist of music for two brass choirs by Gabrieli. Sanders Theater...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum, where regular coast-to-coast CBS broadcasts--which reached millions of listeners--persuaded the musical public of the glories of authentic performance. In this regard, Biggs will be written in music history books in connection with the resurgent interest in the organ music of J.S. Bach, and in the use of authentic Baroque organs that were abandoned for the garish, flashy organs of the late nineteenth century...
Dunster House Music Society presents Kletzsh's "Gesualdo," a short musical play for baritone and violin (performed by the composer) and Bach's "Art of the Fugue," with Margaret Dusenberry (violin), Konrad von und zu Tilleysburg (viola), Aideen Zeitlin (violin), and Peter Belmont (cello). Dunster House Library. 3 p.m. Free...