Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BACH: Cantatas No. 54, No. 170, Agnus...
...matured slowly, did not find his own way as an artist until he was past 40. Although he spent more than half of his life in Germany, his painting owes little to German expressionism. Its technique is borrowed from Paris cubism; its architectonic spirit relates to Gothic churches and Bach fugues; its cool severity seems a personal reflection of modern engineering. Says U.C.L.A. Art Gallery Director Frederick Wight: Feininger "unlearned the last century's concept of [space as] a three-dimensional void. Instead, he gradually makes a clearing around the object through a series of projections. Feininger...
Nothing to Fear. Mozart was lively, improvident, generous, totally incapable of holding his own with publishers or managers. He could compose, correct, and complete an entire symphony in his head. But he had none of the massive stolidity that enabled Bach to create a profusion of great music while begetting 20 children-and it is partly because of this tragic frailty that today Mozart is adored and Bach merely worshiped...
...June, wearing beret, coat, muffler and gloves, carrying two large bottles of spring water to drink, five small bottles of pills, and his own piano chair. Before he started to play, he soaked his hands and arms in hot water. Then he began a week's stint: recording Bach's difficult "Goldberg" Variations. Sometimes he sang as he played, and when he finished a "take" that particularly pleased him, he jumped up with a gleeful "Wow!" But when a piano note sagged by a hair, a tuner was called instantly. And when the pianist made the same mistake...
...first U.S. concerts a year ago, critics cheered (Washington Post and Times Herald's Paul Hume: "We know of no pianist anything like him of any age"). Last week the result of Gould's recording session was out on a Columbia LP. His "Goldberg" Variations are Bach as the old master himself must have played-with delight in speeding like the wind, joy in squeezing beauty out of every phrase, and all the freshness of the spring water which Hypochondriac Gould uses to wet his pipes...