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...performance of J.S. Bach's Passion According to St. John at Sanders Theater has become almost an annual affair. The Passion was originally performed as a liturgical drama around Easter, but it has lost some of its religious connotations through the centuries and is now a staple in choral repertoire. Saturday night the Cecilia Society, an outstanding local chorus, celebrates its 100th anniversary with a performance of the Passion featuring some of Boston's finest vocalists on the solo parts. Backing up the singers will be the Cambridge Festival Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Tickets available at the door...
TIME Geneva Stringer Robert Kroon, who interviewed TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...
Every Sunday morning, live Bach Cantatas with chorus and orchestra in the liturgical context Johann took for granted are performed at the service at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Bach Society Orchestra have openings for all instrumentalists, especially and chronically for string players. Bach Society Wed., thurs., and Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., H.R.O. next week. The way these things usually go, everybody shows up for the last day of auditious, so if you want to catch the conductor in a good humor come the first...
Switched-on Bach, the burbling and tootling re-creations of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and other works on the Moog synthesizer, has become the best-selling "classical" record of all time (3 million copies sold worldwide to date). None of the subsequent sons of SOB (The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, Moog Strikes Back) has ever managed to overtake the original, but the newest and most interesting challenger is Tokyo's Isao Tomita, 43. After a slow start last year, his RCA album Snowflakes are Dancing (electronic versions of Debussy piano pieces) has passed the 200,000 mark. Three months...