Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six years of life in England, the Baltimore kid had come home to play Gershwin, Debussy and Bach, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Ellington. Whatever the piece, the pleasure of his fans was the measure of his welcome...
...thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like the Sanctus of Bach's B Minor Mass, or Mozart's Magic Flute...
Even the greatly reduced string ensemble in Bach's C-minor concerto (no. 1) for violin and oboe often failed to express the grace and flexibility in this lovely music. The soloists were the winners of the orchestra's concerto contest: John Austin played a rather discreet fiddle, which was occasionally overwhelmed by the powerful oboe playing of Carl Schlaikjer; nevertheless both parts were very well done. The other competition winned was E. S. Stewart, whose Variations on a Melody won the contest for undergraduate compositions...
...East. You have put your finger on the inadequacies of our poor farmers in Vermont, but at the same time suggested a solution. All they need to get them out of the doldrums is a two-story pipe organ in each and every farmhouse. Then they can bat out Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring to their heart's content, without the annoying interruption of having to run out to the barn and pull switches for ten minutes...
...Otello. For its fullest effect, it should be led with precision rather than exaggeration and be given a Baroque, not Romantic treatment. One of the egregious examples of this misinterpretation was Richard Burgin's syrupy violin solo in the soprano aria "Erbarme dich." It sounded more like Liszt than Bach...