Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Rico, made his home, calls at the gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles down in dimness and the shapely silence of a thousand-year-old church to hear the cellist play Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello...
...handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like a priest, intoned, "St. Nadia, protect us," and two more singers, representing Sebastian (Bach) and Igor (Stravinsky), chanted: "Long live peaceful coexistence...
...Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of J.S.B.), the Partita in A Major for Viola and Orchestra, by French Composer Louis de Caix d'Hervelois...
...Education of Arthur Winner. By Love Possessed (570 pp.; Harcourt. Brace; $5) is reared on a theme from the 17th century metaphysical poet Fulke Greville: "Passion and reason, selfe-division cause." This theme is developed almost musically, but it is the austere music of a Bach fugue, architectonic, contrapuntal, slow, majestic, sometimes irritatingly tedious, always impressive if not steadily arresting. It is played in a minor key, for this is a bitter comedy sounding life's black notes. The prevailing mood is irony, starting with the title itself. In Cozzens' meaning, "possessed" stands for "seized...
Performance & Tradition. The St. Thomas Choir has sometimes been criticized on the grounds that its stringent interpretations strip Bach's music of emotion. The more lyrical school of Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered...