Word: bache
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...erected a façade of innocuous jobs (publisher's assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...station's schedule, released yesterday, features Dixieland, swing, and modern jazz from today until 12 midnight on January 10. Other programs will be devoted to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music through Bach; Haydn, Mozart and pre-Beethoven; Beethoven; the Romantics; the Moderns from R. Strauss; Gilbert and Sullivan and opera...
Johann Sebastian Bach was 37 when he applied for the job of musical director at Leipzig's churches of St. Thomas and St. Nicolas. He was asked for some assurance that he could "maintain the music." What, for instance, could he offer for the coming Good Friday service? Bach produced his brand-new Passion According to St. John and got the job. Last week RCA Victor released the first complete recording of the St. John (6 sides LP) ever made in English...
...capture the sound and spirit of Bach's day, Conductor Robert Shaw cut the RCA Victor Orchestra down to 23 pieces, kept choruses small for most of it. As soloists, Blanche Thebom, Mack Harrell and Leslie Chabay are first class. The result is one of the most magnificent recordings of the year...
...only possible objection to an otherwise enjoyable concert lies in the programming. A program devoted entirely to Christmas music is a fine thing, but why not include a modern composition? An evening of Schutz, J. C. Bach, and Handel is just a little too much...