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...programme of the first concert will consist of numbers by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Braun, and Holst...
...recent CRIMSON interview with Dr. Pratt on the Music of Gershwin would indicate that this modern composer represents the consummate genius of some four hundred years of musical history. Gershwin is described as having placed himself, through the medium of jazz, well on the way to classing with Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner...
European orchestras usually refuse to have children soloists but Yehudi has been invited to play with the orchestras in all the great capitals. In Berlin when he was 12 he played in one evening the concertos of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. In the Beethoven he played the Kreisler cadenza which he had learned from a phonograph record. (Most violinists play the Joachim cadenza. Beethoven's own, unworthy of him, was never published.) When he had finished the crowd stood cheering for 20 minutes. After the performance Albert Einstein rushed up to him with tears in his eyes. At the great...
...kept this respect for the Masters. He studies now only from original texts (in German the Ur-texts), works out by himself the composer's own bowings & markings. When a Swiss doctor was about to remove his appendix, he went under ether asking for the Ur-text of Bach. "Bach alone, unedited," he said, "is so perfect, so satisfying...
John Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (for harpsichord with string accompaniment...