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...which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted by Gounod as a love song). Also banned: Oh, Promise Me, from De Koven's operetta Robin Hood; Because ("secular"); I Love You Truly ("profane...
...Bach: Toccata in D Minor (E. Power Biggs; Columbia). An organ tour of Europe in which- Organist Biggs plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...
Those graduates of last year's freshman group who have had the valuable experience of having their interest in choral music aroused, and who do not make the Harvard Glee Club next week, will not strictly "have no chance to continue singing." There exist the Bach Society Chorus, the Music Club Chorus, Alfred Nash Patterson's Chorus Pro Musica in Boston, church choirs throughout the Cambridge and Boston areas. The operetta choruses have in the past actually had a majority of non-Glee Club singers, and, as in the case of the Winthrop House Opera last spring, additional Glee Club...
Thursday. The cardiographic checks on the President's heart showed satisfactory healing, and the doctors reduced the daily cardiograms from two to one a day (just before breakfast). Use of the oxygen tent was discontinued altogether. Ike listened to music by Bach, e.g., Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze, which he had requested, and a pretty Army nurse, First Lieut. Lorraine P. Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room...
Americans have heard German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in everything from Bach's B Minor Mass to Lehar's The Merry Widow-on records. But, except for scattered concerts, they have not heard her in person. This season, the San Francisco Opera gave her a chance to show off not only her brilliant singing but also her remarkable acting. Her roles: the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Her score: bull's-eyes in both roles...