Word: bache
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...screen in black and white with the sound track of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," the line of young men one after another touched their draft cards to a flickering candle. After watching the cards blaze down to finger-burning remains, they dropped the charred stubs in a silver bowl and shook hands with the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. Shown in a darkened Boston federal courtroom last week, the TV newsreel was offered by a federal prosecutor as part of the evidence against Yale Chaplain Coffin, 43, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, 65, and three codefendants, all charged with conspiracy...
...MUSIC of the past, Bach, the Blues, Rock music, is the music of slaves. It reassures, it comforts, it says everything is all right--basely falsifying because, in truth, we are in a desperate situation...
...Bach, the protestant composer, is the worst. He transforms the repetitions of our lives so they shimmer and seem transfigured. But underneath it all is the beat. Bach is a fraud contributing to the rise of Capitalism in his proclamation of a transcendent life for businessman and worker. But are these lives rightly transfigured into grace...
...moments whose exquisiteness he seemed particularly desirous of pointing out to the audience. The trouble with these antics is threefold: they are aurally and visually distracting, especially in a room the size of the Kirkland JCR; they are didactic and insulting to an audience generally capable of appreciating Bach's subtleties on its own; and, most important, they are bound to distract a performing musician from his real business, which is to channel his expressiveness into the sounds he is producing. If instead it is trapped by some sort of external physicality, it is ultimately the music that suffers. This...
...these, however, are petty considerations compared to the sheer feat of performing that much Bach--any musician's ordeal by combat--on one program. Almost consistently competent on a professional level, the combined efforts of Buswell and Valenti frequently achieved real excitement as well. Hedonist or intellectual, that is as much as anyone...