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Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme. During the whole romantic and impressionist era, only a handful of composers bothered to write for the organ, and what they wrote was largely insignificant. But in recent decades, the pope of the musical world has begun a major comeback. Modern U.S. composers * Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, Leo Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found...
...Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting dissonance. Many times, the two voices of the sax and horn have been compared with their counter-parts in a Bach two part invention...
...bare, dimly lit squadron headquarters at Hanoi's Bach Mai Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...father of German music," he composed the first German opera (Dafne), and was the man who managed to fuse solid German choral counterpoint with Italy's exciting new "concerted" style that combined voices and instruments. Schütz's music has long been shadowed by Bach, but once modern ears are accustomed to it, its impact is dramatic as well as spiritual...
Soprano Jean Lunn, who in addition to singing in the Schuetz and Bach performed a solo cantata by Tunder, was in wonderful form. I have never more admired the agility of her voice and the intelligence of her musicianship. Robert Gartside created a striking effect with his accomplished tenor but he could have shown more restraint is the ensembles. The other soloists, Anne Talbot, Robert Simon, and Bernard Barbeau, were of equally high caliber...