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...keep in mind that there is substantial historical evidence in support of all that Brueggen does, and that the degree of freedom in regulated in accordance with the style of composition. 'Thus, while the unaccompanied van Eyck Variations on "Amarilli" were played quite freely, the more strictly constructed Bach sonata received an appropriately less rhapsodic treatment...
Precol Harum. Apparently "Whiter Shade of Pale" was one of the first rock and roll songs to lift knowingly from the classics, Bach (they tell me) in this case. Which led to the rock-classical fusions of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Meanwhile PH's Keith Reid wrote lyrics that predated, and occasionally surpassed the obscure inanities of King Crimson and Yes. And Procol Harum plays on, the grandaddy of the progressives...
...equipped, but he did not do so in a blatantly reactionary fashion. It is an accomplishment to expand the appreciation of an audience without offending it: at best, the result is a Mozartean perfection of pre-established forms; at worst, it is misguided invention better spent writing yet another Bach chorale. In between those extremes, only the passage of time can determine whether the effort was a mere transitionary stroke or a truly original statement...
...expected, Balanchine made virtually no concessions to accepted Russian dance taste, which has been shaped by the 19th century-oriented Bolshoi and Kirov companies. Indeed, he offered some of the company's most abstract works, like his Violin Concerto (set to Stravinsky) and Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations (Bach), dances that eschew decor, spectacle and story line in favor of balanced and unbalanced compositions that are mod, sexy and athletic. The results were varied. The Georgians in their sunny Italianate capital, Tbilisi, responded more enthusiastically to those works than ballet-goers in Kiev and Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (1 last week) 2- August 1914, Solzhenifsyn (2) 3- On the Night of the Seventh Moon, Holt 4-The Winds of War, Wouk (5) 5-The Dark Horse, Knebel (7) 6- Captains and the Kings, Caldwell (4) 7- A Portion for Foxes, McClary (6) 8- My Name Is Asher Lev, Potok (3) 9-The Levanter, Ambler 10-1 Come as a Thief, Auchincloss