Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
...earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance . . . represents the work of three consecutive years...
...Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Wagner, Tschaikovsky, Strauss, etc., etc., were not Jews...
...program includes several well known selections. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in E miner" and an air of his "My Dearest Jesu" will be played, Part of Widor's Fourth Symphony, the "Andaute Cantabile", is also to be played. An air, "Erry Valley", from "The Messiah", by Handel, is one of the finest on the schedule...
...decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney and Berlen-bach, may now be matched with Champion James Joseph Tunney...