Word: bache
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...together with passages of his poetry, radio and stage plays. The two have extracted from Beckett's life work the single figure of the Beckett tramp, Fool without his Lear. Now the tramp was confronting his maker in rapt concentration. Intense and difficult listening: this Beckett, like a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin, is a music compacted of roughnesses and silences, almost demanding of the audience too the explorations and repetitions of rehearsal in order to flower in performance...
...musical virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird School pianist-will play the work of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Swanson, and Prakofiev...
Last Saturday, March 21, was Bach's birthday, and Cambridge streamed into Mem Church to pay tribute. As in the opening scene of Notre Dame de Paris...
...Bach never heard the entire Mass in his lifetime. It is said that he wrote it for God. It must not be easy to serve ambrosia to mere mortals, but yesterday the University Choir served God's feast with such humanity and compassion that it seemed like Peter preaching to the fisherman...
...many ways, the story of Western civilization is the search for a flashlight. Statues are built to those who can cast even dim light on the next few steps of our dark lives. Bach may have been the Fifth Apostle. In that case, the light would have come from his halo...