Word: bache
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...think the biggest problem is that people get lazy about keeping records, and I'm not sure if a class can change that," said Stephen W. Huang '95, who is general manager and music director for the Bach Society Orchestra...
Glenn Gould was at once a passionate musical genius and a neurotic compulsive freak. As quickly as he polished off a Bach variation, he would also consume arrowroot cookies with ketchup, voraciously take tranquilizers by the dozen and spend hours on the telephone calling anyone at anytime just to talk. In his elliptically eccentric little film, director Francois Girard composes a series of thirty-two short compositions that capture the intense peculiarities of the pianist's insanely tortured and brilliant life. The director's minimalist documentary style, while ostensibly unassuming, is as intense as the Gouldian world it unfolds...
...think my music relates to Philip Glass and Steve Reich at all," says Nyman, referring to the two American pioneers of Minimalism, "but it originated from knowing their music. A composer builds on the tradition that's already established. Bach listened to Vivaldi, Vivaldi listened to Corelli, and the roots go back to Monteverdi. There's a common language or attitude...
Most people would answer "yes" to that. When somebody is in an a capella concert, or Bach Society, or whatever, and this person has a performance, he or she will ask every acquaintance to attend...
...every professor can break into Bach in the middle of lecture. But more might strive to enliven their pedagogy with this most potent of forces...