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Illustrating his lecture with frequent trips to the piano, Rosen first demonstrated the difference between written music and the sound produced when that music is played. Both Bach and Beethoven wrote work in which written notes are inaudible but cause the listener to "imagine the links between notes," he said...
...able to shape Viet Nam's economic development to their liking, but they are far enough away from Hanoi to be able to chart their own path. The broken remnants of the city's old bourgeoisie often gather at dusk along the Saigon River's Bach Dang Quay to watch the unloading of rusty freighters and talk business. They have endured, and they still hope some day to prosper once again...
...ALIVE. And so it did last week, as the City company presented new works by U.S. composers. In an evening titled "An American Trilogy," the company premiered three one-act works by two well-known New Yorkers, Stanley Silverman and Thomas Pasatieri, and a relatively unknown Middle Westerner, Jan Bach. The results were mixed, but overall the night was a success and a must for anyone interested in the state of American opera...
Perhaps the most interesting of the new productions, however, is the one by the least known composer. Bach, 42, a professor of music at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Ill., had written only one opera before The Student from Salamanca, but he clearly knows what he is doing. Using two short Cervantes works, which he put into words himself, he has created an amusing variation on an old theme: the young wife, the old husband and the handsome young man who comes along to complicate their lives...
There are hints of Rossini and Donizetti in all this. Yet Bach manages to translate traditional themes into his own idiom: the opera's feeling is classical; its music is modern. The opening sets the tone, with sounds as light as Lloyd Evans' airy sets. The momentum flags some what in the middle, but then at the end the composer recaptures his inspiration with a beautiful fugue, all six singers joining in joyous celebration. The cast is admirable. Beverly Evans as the maid is a good bit more than admirable, combining a fine mezzo-soprano with a deft...