Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France. She came to the U.S. and settled in Lakeville, Conn., with Elsa Schumicke and Denise Restout, who had been her constant companions for more than 25 years. There she concentrated on recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high priestess of the harpsichord turned once again to "my first love"-the piano...
Still it was not enough to satisfy her youthful dream. She recorded an album of Haydn sonatas (released this summer), immediately made arrangements to record Bach's Three-Part Inventions. But that, at last, was denied. One morning last week, in her home in Connecticut, Wanda Landowska suffered a stroke, and there she died...
...jittery convicts, followed Papa Engle's strategy to "just have an ordinary evening." Engle banged out .a couple of Chicago Tribune book reviews on his typewriter. Mrs. Engle ironed incessantly (so that she could strike while it was hot), Mary lectured on insects and entertained with some Bach piano selections ("They didn't like it, so they made me stop"), and Sara foresightedly hid some scissors in a bird cage. Finally the upstaged crooks trussed up all four in plastic clothesline and departed in Poet Engle's clothing and his station wagon. The Engles quickly freed themselves...
...only non-German composer was Harvard's own Walter Piston, with his early, acerb Chromatic Study on BACH, and his more recent and highly important Prelude and Allegro. In this and the Mozart, Mrs. Pardue was assisted by a string orchestra of Summer School students, conducted by G. Wallace Wood worth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...almost all-German program, it was only proper that the first half be given over to J. S. Bach. There was the monumental Prelude and Fugue in G Major; and the three-movement Trio Sonata No. 1 in E Flat, one of the most treacherous challenges in the entire literature. Of the two chorale-preludes, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier presented a constant parade of startling dissonances. Later periods were represented by Mozart's charming, if second-drawer, Sonata No. 15 in C; Brahms' rich-textured Fugue in A Flat Minor (a most rare key); and Hermann Schroeder's chorale...