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...Prohibition that brought Mencken perhaps his richest experiences and inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...
Short, impassive Milstein fully seizes such melodious, bravura opportunities as the Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch concertos (both of which he has recorded for Columbia). But he is also among the most sensitive living interpreters of Beethoven's and Bach's violin music. To aging Violinist Fritz Kreisler (see cut) he is the greatest of today's younger generation of violinists. Unlike most Russian fiddlers, he had a wealthy father (a wool importer). Milstein was born in Odessa, was sent to the Imperial Conservatory at the age of eleven. The revolution stopped his violin lessons, but he went...
...consonances variously interspersed with dissonances. But throughout musical history the dissonances have shown a tendency to crowd the consonances out. In the 16th Century Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who composed the greatest of all Catholic liturgical music, expressed himself almost entirely in consonances. But 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach, a product of the more individualistic Protestant Reformation, used dissonances liberally, especially in his impassioned, emotional moments. And 19th-Century Richard Wagner, whose individualism bordered on egomania, laid dissonances on with a trowel...
Leading the choir will be G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music. First selection offered will be a chorale "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her" by Bach, followed by two English carols "Christ is born of maiden fair" and "the First Noel." Three more carols "Good King Wenceslas," "A Dream of Christmas," and "The Three Kings" will be sung...
Completing the program of carols will be "Alleluia" and "On Christmas Night." Then Bach's famed chorale with violin obligate "My Soul There Is a Country" will be presented. The organ postlude, played by Woodworth, will be the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...