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Pursuit. It was not easy. Sensing danger, Nazi spymasters in Hamburg had named all their agents in the Americas with nicknames. Intercepted messages referred to "Bach," to "Pedro," to "Apfel." But patiently, month after month, the cryptic messages were studied and compared, the machinations of the spies uncovered. It was found that "Bach" was Ludwig von Bohlen, Air Attache to the Santiago German Embassy. A woman, one Isabel Pederit, was found to be the spy-ring expert, charged with developing letters written in secret inks. These came to her from all over the Americas, and the information they contained...
...real jazz usually takes more time and effort to acquire than a feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz has to depend on a rare combination of many talents, a band...
...Bach andante. Frederick Wilhelm August Stock, Chicago's grand old man of music, had died at 69 of a heart attack two days before...
Last week one expert offered an answer. Professor Harold Burris-Meyer, director of research in sound at Stevens Institute of Technology, released results of elaborate tests with factory music from Bach to boogie-woogie. Once, in a big Philadelphia laundry, his experiments were so shattering that one worker burst into tears and ran home. But his overall findings show that scientifically planned music increases factory production by 1.3 to 11.1% (in factories already employing music...
After the Philadelphia broadest this afternoon, WLP will present a recorded session featuring E. Power Biggs playing Bach on the Baroque Organ...