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...Potsdam in 1747 went Johann Sebastian Bach, by royal invitation, and was joyfully received by "the most distinguished flute player in Europe," King Frederick the Great. Himself an amateur versifier and composer, Frederick asked his famed visitor to improvise on a royal theme. Bach forthwith obliged, extemporized a three-voice fugue. Frederick, delighted but still royal, thereupon set a more difficult task: development of his original theme into a six-part fugue. That was a stumper, even for the 62-year-old master; to make things worse, Frederick wished the assignment worked out in his presence...
...Bach demurred, gracefully. But the King of Prussia's poser had roused the King of Fugue's dander: afterwards, in Leipzig, Bach went to work. He elaborated Frederick's theme into a monumental score which he named Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) and sent it to the King, with a felicitous dedication: "To Your Majesty is proffered herewith in humblest obedience a musical offering, whose most excellent portion originates from your noble hand...
...Yesterday, drinking coffee in a farm and listening to the radio, I heard the speaker say, 'And now you will hear Partita No. 1 by Bach played by Yehudi Menuhin,' and the music flew in that farm as some years before in the Opera House in Paris, or the Salle Pleyel. And I remembered your playing with Enesco and orchestra under direction of Monteux and the only remembrance of these souvenirs of mine was so hot, they swept away the winds in the country, the planes overhead, and the anti-aircraft engines, and the guns and all that...
...program: Handel's Concerto Gresso No. 24 (F major), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Bach's Sonatina from "God's Time is Best," Bach's Concerto for Harpatchord and Strings and Handel's Overture to "Ottone...
...tremendous possibilities of another aspect of student music were demonstrated last Thursday at the Leverett House Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like...