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...Carlos Chavez is Mexico's No.1 man of music and one of the world's important composers. In 20 stormy years on the podium of his country's first major symphony orchestra, he introduced Mexico to as much Bach as Stravinsky-and almost as much Chavez. As a young composer he tilted with everything from mechanized music, in his ballet H.P. (horsepower), to severe abstractions, with such names as Polygons and Hexagons, to music for native instruments. Last week Composer Chavez led the New York PhilharmonicSymphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of his Sinfonia...
Nothing to Fear. Mozart was lively, improvident, generous, totally incapable of holding his own with publishers or managers. He could compose, correct, and complete an entire symphony in his head. But he had none of the massive stolidity that enabled Bach to create a profusion of great music while begetting 20 children-and it is partly because of this tragic frailty that today Mozart is adored and Bach merely worshiped...
...Bach Cantata lithographs from these early years reveal the characteristic features of Kokoschka's style. They are animated and mysterious, expressing the artist's belief that "man is a magical thing, full of magical powers." Every line has meaning--the intersecting lines of force and the curling gestures create a mood of tension. A self-portrait in this series, similar to one owned by the Museum of Modern Art, shows Kokoschka pointing to his chest. He considers this portrait prophetic, since he was wounded in this spot a few years later during the first World...
...must be a low-pressured, sweet-sounding baroque organ whose reedy stops and scintillant overtones would be similar to the sound of Bach's own playing...
Organist Weinrich recorded 76 separate Bach pieces, or about one-fourth of all the master's organ music. Last week the first two LPs of the series were released, containing the 46 chorale preludes of Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book). Organist Weinrich's performance is as pure and concise as Bach is supposed to sound; the distinctness of his contrapuntal lines sets off the daring harmonic progressions that so dismayed Bach's congregation, as well as the surging emotion. The recorded sound is sweet and-being hi-fi-a little bit clearer than...