Word: bache
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...PAUL'S CHURCH. Bach Society Christmas Concert...
...Putting Jonathan Livingston Seagull into the hands of the irresponsible masses makes Author Bach a candidate for public spanking. He has simplistically watered down the problem of 20th century man at the edge of the abyss with the admonition to "do your own thing...
...enjoyed the cover story on high-flying Author Richard Bach, but I think a dip of the wings is in order for Russell Munson...
...father loved classical music, symphonic music, especially Bach, Verdi, Puccini. He played the violin, and he was very glad to see that I started to play the piano. My father was very kind, very gentle with me..." A reminiscence by some young Einstein? Not at all. The speaker was Romano Mussolini, son of Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, arriving in New York on tour as a jazz pianist. Young Mussolini, who bills himself as "a legendary name in Italian jazz," says he is a disciple of Duke Ellington and offers a repertoire ranging from Summertime to a syncopated...
...prodigious powers as a musical extemporizer. When he was only eleven, none other than Goethe himself asked the boy to play a certain fugue of Bach's. Unable to recall it all, Felix improvised as he went along, weaving contrapuntal lines into a heavily brocaded baroque fabric that was good enough, at least, to convince Goethe. That was one of the few instances, however, when Mendelssohn's memory failed him. Shortly after Beethoven's Ninth Symphony came out, Mendelssohn, then 15, could play it all on the piano without a book...