Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conversation with Pablo Casals (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). The famed cellist plays Bach and talks of his life...
Kiss for the Queen. This year the program was Bach, Schubert and Brahms, and everyone agreed as usual, that the master was at the peak of his power and form. In the L' Eglise Saint-Pierre, on a platform before the altar, the old man sat playing his "tired" old cello with closed eyes. Every seat in the church was taken for the extra-long (2½ to three hours) concerts that are a Prades tradition, and listeners sat or stood wherever they could find breathing space. Front-row center sat Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, noted and knowledgeable...
...Office Tonic. Surprise hit of the festival was the nine-member Bach Aria Group from the U.S., organized nine years ago by Oil Heir William H. Scheide, a onetime music teacher at Cornell University. Bach Specialist Scheide, who has long maintained that the cantatas are the heart of Bach's work, figured out that about half of the cantatas' 650-odd arias could be performed by combinations of five instruments and four voices. To prove it, he assembled the aria group, made the discovery, to everyone's surprise that Bach vocal music was a tonic...
Other noteworthy new records: Bach's Double Concerto, played by Yehudi Menuhin and Gioconda De Vito (Victor); Debussy Piano Music, played by Robert Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...
...Yellow Paper. Friendly, greying Dr. Palmquist went to Wilshire in 1947, and "only asked them to let me build the kind of church I would have liked to belong to when I was in the advertising business." This meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years...