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...York City Ballet's new instant masterpiece, Choreographer Jerome Robbins' The Goldberg Variations. The unspectacular title refers to the music that both inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part of the City Ballet's repertoire, is a collaboration that transcends the centuries, a joint...
Gill has sung the role of Almaviva in Le Nozze at Leverett House twice in recent years, and met with great success. He also sang the bass part in this spring's production of the Bach Saint Matthew Passion in Sanders Theatre...
...unbirthdays that the nation's mayors, Governors, and even Presidents have provided. If you missed cherishing May 1 as Give Your Girl a Pearl Day, there is still ample time to observe International Play-Your-Own-Harpsichord Month, which is also National Tavern Month. Have a Bach beer...
...auto-parts company, Midas-International used to be a remarkable place to work. At its Chicago headquarters, Bach chamber music wafted from hidden loudspeakers, while Technicolor-plumed finches twittered in a giant cage. The boss, bumper-bald Gordon Sherman, 43, was in the office round the clock some days-and other days scarcely at all. A man of intense energy and occasional brilliance, he often worked at home, where he also liked to tend his orchids and hummingbirds or tootle his oboe and English horn. Occasionally he held executive meetings at a zoo, or in the office by candlelight...
...hear the inner parts. But trios work fine. Adagio sections have to be dropped or cut because of distracting street noises. The repertory varies with the location. "The people by Doubleday's dig Beethoven more than the people in front of Macy's," says Violinist Robert Dubow. "Bach is too intellectual for the street," reports Bassoonist Greg Barber. "Besides, his line is long and threadlike. It can easily be lost when a truck roars by." Adds another street musician: "Everyone understands Mozart." Of the all-string works, Haydn's "London" trios get the biggest audiences and make...