Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (French National Orchestra conducted by the composer; Angel). The eighth of Villa-Lobos' nine important works inspired by Bach and flavored by Brazil in its first recording. The music is mellow, slightly warmer than body heat, touched with musical humor in the paso doble part of the second movement, and generally more relaxed than the music of temperate climes...
Ansbach, Germany, for no reason except enthusiasm and the fact that the old Bach stronghold, Leipzig, is now behind the Iron Curtain, puts on its annual Bach festival (July 23-30). On hand: Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Featured choral work: the B-Minor Mass...
Prades (July 2-18) will present famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 78, in his sixth festival, this one devoted to music of Bach, Schubert and Brahms. Other soloists: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Pianists Eugene Istomin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski; Singers Eleanor Steber, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Jan Peerce...
...students to be too sketchy for concentrators, who are encouraged to take Music 123 and 124, a two-year survey. Generally, however, the department does not make such a clear distinction between courses offered for concentrators and non-concentrators. The unexpected popularity among non-concentrators of "The Art of Bach" has created something of a problem for the department in planning the course that will have appeal to concentrators and non-concentrators alike...
This problem will be magnified by the increase number of history courses to be offered after replacing faculty vacancies. At present, the department has attempted to solve the problem by assigning different types of work to concentrators and non-concentrators in such courses as "The Art of Bach." Larger institutions are able to offer wholly separate history courses of varying technicality, but the limit on the number of permanent appointees here prohibits that arrangement...