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...were required to sit in the Wooster Chapel at the minimum of four days a week all through a school year and listen to nothing but Bach and Professor Gore's interpretations of same, you would certainly welcome a little of Gounod's "sexy" music or the "lull" of Tchaikovsky...
Among the few composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...
Mossman draws the line at rewriting Beethoven and Bach. Says he: "Beethoven can be adapted, but I don't like to - it's so perfect." With the air of a man piously renouncing a chance for a fast buck he adds: "I'd never touch Bach. There are a couple of themes in the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat -but I wouldn't touch them...
...Bach: Toccata (Adagio & Fugue) in C Major (Alexander Borovsky, piano; Vox, 4 sides). One of Bach's great and frequently transcribed organ works, here played somewhat murkily on the piano. Recording: good...
...musical style that does not sound at all like secular music (i.e., the unaccompanied Gregorian chants-still sung in many a Catholic and Anglican church); or 2) have its secular elements "assimilated and purged of their worldly connotations" (i.e., the cantatas, Passions and organ works of Bach...