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Greatest composer of organ music who ever lived was portly, quick-fingered 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach. His 30-odd organ fugues and numerous choral preludes and sonatas are still regarded as the organist's Bible. But if Bach walked into a present-day church while his music was being played, he would hardly recognize...
...Since Bach's time the organ has grown out of all knowledge. Modern organs, used in cinema palaces as well as in churches, can reproduce the sound of an entire orchestra, can imitate anything from a train whistle to cathedral chimes. By pulling and pushing little buttons, modern organists can produce tremulous vox humana, whooshing swell-effects, can make their gigantic instruments do everything but prance up & down the aisles. Some organists love to put a modern organ through its tricks; others sigh for the good old days when an organ was just an organ, point nostalgically...
...haired Organist E. Power Biggs, of Harvard's Germanic Museum, does not have to sigh for the good old days. In the museum's peaceful, arched Romanesque Hall is an organ, the only one of its kind in the U. S., built to the precise specifications of Bach's period.* Last week Organist Biggs, with his facsimile organ, started the second half of a cycle of concerts which will include all of Bach's organ works, played exactly as they might have sounded to Composer Bach himself...
Gerald L. K. Smith, whom H. L. Mencken once called the "master of masters of all epics, ancient or modern, and Aristotle, Johann Sebastain Bach, and all orators, dead or alive," will address the Young Conservatives on March...
...concert will open with a Bach cantata, "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." From beginning to end, the themes in this work are all based on the soprano part in the final calm and triumphant choral. Sections of this soprano melody are developed into full-length choruses that tell of Christ's death and resurrection at the beginning of the cantata, and, in the middle, of the horrible struggle between life and death. The work is essentially dramatic; and Mlle. Boulanger's interpretation, though perhaps a bit too a la francaise, brings out the drama to the full...