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DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Bach: Cantata Es ist genugn, and two ricercares from the Musical Offering. Free. Friday, November...
CURRIER HOUSE SCR. Cynthia Healy Ellis, soprano; Susan Gordon, piano; Marion Haffenreffer, violin. Chamber music of Bach, Beethoven, Molst, Walton, and Barber. Free. Saturday, November...
...prelude to Bach's third suite for unaccompanied cello, there's a moment when the intricate opening melodies flow into a series of broken chords. Each chord is played twice, with connecting passages of four notes each, and for some reason--I think maybe because the music is so simple--it seems as though there's an army of cellos waltzing together, or a chorus of very simple, ordinary people. The people might all know one another very well. Or they might just be strangers at the back of some coffeehouse, passing around bottles of wine or beer and joining...
Pablo Casals--who discovered the Bach cello suites, unplayed for 150 years, at the age of 13--grew up in the Catalonia Orwell later wrote about, and he remained a loyal Catalan right up to his death last week at the age of 96. Catalan "was the language of troubadours," he once said, "and of free spirits." He liked to quote a Catalan poet, Joan Maragall, who wrote: "To take flight to Heaven, we must stand on the firm soil of our native land." And he sometimes told about Luis Companys, president of Catalonia under the Spanish Republic. Casals...
...Bach is like Shakespeare," Casals said many years later. "He is everything. Everything except a professor. Professor Bach I do not know." On Casals's records, the dances that make up the cello suites are genuinely dances, their beats strong and resonant like those of a country fiddler, their rhythms fluctuating slightly with the fluctuation of the dance. Politics and music for Casals were both ordinary activities for ordinary people, in which human beings behaved as human beings and not as cogs in a machine. Casals's popularity accordingly extended to peasants, musicians and politicians alike. His status...