Word: bache
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...Bach swings. So well, in fact, that jazzmen have been spinning out variations on his music ever since the 1930s, when Benny Goodman's band started belting such numbers as Bach Goes to Town, and since then Bach has been through more modern translations than the Iliad. Now from Paris comes an eight-voice chorus called the Swingle Singers, with a new gimmick - sing-swinging Bach...
...years ago, the octet (four men, four women) sings fugues and preludes by vocally approximating the sounds of chamber-music instruments. Put to the swinging four-beat rhythm of string bass and drums, the sound is surprisingly engaging, with a distinctly joyous air about it. Their two albums, Bach's Greatest Hits and Going Baroque, have sold more than 250,000 copies and won for them this year's Grammy Award as the best new recording artists of the year. Last May they were imported for a presidential concert at the White House...
...Oodla-Oodlee." Far from paling at the effrontery of it all, most Bach men like the gently swinging translation. And some, like Pianist Glenn Gould, are downright ecstatic: "They're just fabulously good! When I first heard them, I felt like lying on the floor and kicking my heels, that's how good I thought they were...
...Reporter. Pierre was a piano prodigy, at six played Haydn in a recital at the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto. But he finally concluded that the piano was not his forte, decided to forgo a musical career, although he still plays a passable Bach...
...herself earlier in the festival in which she played a duet with a mechanized robot equipped with twirling foam-rubber breasts, is told at 36 minutes to "play and sing for four minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...