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...print in the 15th Century, it became an elaborate affair with as many as three keyboards and 25 pedals to give a great variety of tone quality and volume. Nevertheles the harpsichord with its thin, clear tone required a much more delicate touch than the piano, invented in 1711. Bach knew of the piano but thought it an unmusical contraption. He wrote such great works as the Goldberg Variations for the harpsichord. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was actually intended to tinkle along on the harpsichord but in his last sonatas he was the first composer to utilize the vast dynamics...
...Service to modest, greying Widow Florence Guggenheim. Turning from her toward the audience and the band, the Mayor said: "Tonight you have heard and enjoyed, with the added opportunity to observe, the very acme of perfection in band music. When it is possible for a band to render a Bach fugue, then I want to congratulate you, Maestro Goldman, and your musicians. Just imagine Sebastian Bach hearing an organ, and back of every key a human being. If he could have heard it performed here tonight he would have said: 'That is what I intended...
...better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes such rarities as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bach's Phobus and Pan, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona...
...month for festivals throughout the U.S., the month when Bethlehem, Pa. makes its annual bow to Bach, when Conductor Frederick Stock takes his Chicago Symphony to Cornell College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta...
...Bach, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" (Cantata 41); Morley, My Bonny Lass; Brahms, Two Love Songs from Opus 65; Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe" (second set); English Folk Song, Brennan On The Moor; Wagner, Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger"; College Songs...