Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked slowly from a wing of the ornate Kurzaal at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, bowed to the scattered applause, and took her place at the piano. For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations. At the last note, she slumped in her seat as wave after wave of applause broke over her bowed head...
Such response is routine for U.S.-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck-in Europe. Although Tureck's name is only vaguely known to most U.S. concertgoers, to European audiences it is fast becoming the word for some of the most authoritative Bach interpretation to be found...
Ever since she went to London four years ago, critics have fallen over themselves in praise. Said the London Times: "It is not possible to exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style...
...youngsters a thorough grounding in jazz history and styles, firmly steered them away from standard pop music. All of the band members also play in the school concert band, and the exposure to both jazz and classical music, Brown feels, makes them better at both ("They shake up a Bach fugue like nothing human"). Nobody digs them more than their contemporaries. Long before they went to Newport, they were already looking forward to next year's bookings in regional gymnasiums, where they will ladle out the slickest sounds most high-school prom trotters ever swayed...
Augsburg (July 30-Aug. 11) has gone Italian. When the city fathers decided four years ago to get in on the festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi...