Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach Society gives a performance Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. of works by Bach, Mozart, and Haydn. At Paine Hall...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:15 p.m., NBC). Excerpts from Bach's St. John's Passion...
...foreign jazz pianists-including a blind Scotsman (Joe Saye). an Argentine (Enrique Villegas). a German (Jutta Hipp) and a Japanese (Toshiko AkiyoshH -currently performing in the U.S. These pianists represent a reimported export, and Netherlander Beck is a fine sample of how exportable and reimportable jazz is. If Bach fugues can be learned outside Germany, there seems to be no reason why New Orleans riffs cannot be learned out side the U.S. "I dig jive," says the girl from Holland, "but the most important thing is not to goof when...
...Bach: Goldberg Variations...
This is the first record of a much publicized young man named Glenn Gould. He is a pianist with a fabulous technique, and his playing of Bach is truly virtuoso. Strangely enough, his one weak point is precisely where the piano should have the advantage over the harpsichord, in the ability to "sing" a melody. Gould never succeeds in achieving a cantabile style, but seems like a pianist imitating the sound of a harpsichord. While this record does not displace Ralph Kirkpatrick's superlative harpsichord performance, it is the best piano version of a masterpiece...