Word: bache
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...musical lampoons spare nobody, from his keyboard come chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part one of a pentateuch that includes Mendelssohn Mows 'em Down, Mozart Matriculates, Haydn Takes to Ridin', Debussy in Dubuque...
...that the music of Bach and Mozart is "pluck-a-pluck" when played on the instruments for which it was written is as pointless as to say that of Liszt is "crash-a-crash." The whole article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...think Bach and Mozart are antique, just wait: they will be as new and fresh as ever, when Franck and Tschaikowsky and Sibelius are forgotten by all save musicologists...
Under pressure, Mapmaker Harrison often works all night, relaxes by playing Bach, Mozart and swing music on the Monograph beside his drafting board. His ambition: some day to make a U. S. atlas that satisfies himself...
...hear all through the season, choral programs are extremely rare in Cambridge. This week, however, two long concerts of vocal music will be given here. Tomorrow evening the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras will perform jointly a program made up of accompanied choruses by Bach, Handel, and Dargomyzhski; works by Bach, Purcell and Beethoven for orchestra, and a group of traditional songs for chorus alone...