Word: bache
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Germany's music attractions are among the most prestigious in Europe. Apart from the Munich and the Bayreuth Wagner festivals, which have long since been sold put, there are Jugendfestspiele at Bayreuth in August, Ansbach's legendary Bach week also early in August, and open-air opera at Augsburg and Heidelberg, followed in September by the Berlin Festival centering on Herbert von Karajan. West Berlin has become as racy as it was in the '30s, drawing Americans by the hundreds with dozens of cafés offering every variety of decadence...
LIKE THE WORK of P.D.Q. Bach, The Name of the Rose is supposedly the long lost manuscript of an unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
...Glee Club celebrated its 125th anniversary with an elaborate two-day program of concerts, banquets and speeches, highlighted by a special composition in the group's honor by composer comedian Peter Schickcle (a.k.a. PDQ Bach) Among the club's distinguished alums are Leonard Bernstein '39, and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun...
Chung won the opportunity to perform the solo recital by taking the Highest Placing Artist of the Americas Award in the 1981 Bach International Piano Competition...
...theater--memorable and often modern plot and characters, music that can stand on its own merit, and sets that linger in the mind. The musical repertory is as diverse as the dance styles, adding Miles Davis and the group Earth, Wind and Fire to the more traditional Mendelssohn. Bach and Ravel "Revelations," set to chotal Negro spirituals, glorifies the Black experience through folk dancing and Biblical motifs...