Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inevitable without trying to do anything about it. But Dr. Davison did something about it. He announced that the day of the sophomoric ditties was at an end, and that henceforward the club would sing real music. He introduced it to the recondite mysteries of Handel, Palestrina and Bach. And, amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair...
Friday afternoon and Friday evening in Symphony Hall, the last of this season's coreerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conducting. The programme embraces Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra, his Adagio from the Toccata in C major. Scriabin's "Prometheus," Debussy's "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Borodin's Polootsian dances from "Prince Igor...
...Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence Gilman...
...program: Prelude and Fugue in C minor Bach Mr. Leonard. Invocation "O God, have mercy," from "St. Paul" Mendelssohn "Behold, I tell you a mystery," from "The Messiah" Handel Mr. Houghton Tenth Concerto Handel Mr. Leonard. Scripture Reading "Lord, Thou art my refuge" Dvovak "God is my Shepherd" Dvovak "I will sing my new songs of gladness" Dvovak Mr. Houghton. Angelus du Soir Bonnet Finale from Second Symphony Wider Mr. Leonard...
...from the gloom, stood bowing in the soft-lustre before her instrument. She was Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair, she addressed herself to a highly uneventful performance of a Bach Sicilienne. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy followed; in all of whose works Mme. Leschetizky strove courageously to support the improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven can be taken by storm...