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This is not to say that classical and romantic works--the staples of any concert repertoire--are not the great creations that everyone automatically considers them. The familiar figures like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven did indeed write music unrivaled for all time. But occasionally one yearns for compositions which not only appeal to our own era, in any number of vague ways, but which have also been conceived in our own era. I remember a symposium on modern music I attended a couple of years ago in which the composers--among them Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell-Davies--said that...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: And Now For A Couple of Offbeat Downbeats | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Mercedes Olivera, renowned Uruguayan harpsichordist, performs baroque works for that instrument in a concert tonight; Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau will be featured in the program. Go to Holmes Living Room, North House, for the free performance at 8. If you're still thirsting for more of the baroque and the beyond, Musica Sacra, conducted by Lenora McCroskey, plays works of Josquin, Battishill and others from the dark, dark ages. Also included are Brahms's Songs, Opus 62. The concert takes place Friday evening at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., at 8:30. There is a $1.50 contribution which might...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: And Now For A Couple of Offbeat Downbeats | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...Illusions, Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, the three Bs were Bach, booze and broads. He was as prodigious in his appetite as le was generous in spirit. But it is, of course, as a master pianist and composer in the classic tradition of U.S. jazz that Fats has proved larger than death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rent Party | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Illusions, Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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