Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jazz requires a lot of feeling," he says. "Not everyone can do it. I try to build my improvisations on classical patterns, especially Bach, because I think jazz has a lot to do with classical music." His ambition is to give a classical recital in Carnegie Hall, "when I have time to work up a program-and the money...
During a rehearsal shortly after he had become coach, Davison asked the members to try a little Mendelssohn piece called "Der Jagers Abschied." They did it "out of curosity," and they liked it. After Mendelssohn came Bach and Palestrina and finally Stravinsky...
...there was not enough time during rehearsals to sing "Polly Wolly Doodle All the Day" and determined to convert the Club into a genuinely ambitious choral organization. Davison agreed with the plan to separate from the instrument clubs and the big switch from "the Bullfrog on the Bank" to Bach was made...
...performance of the Chaconne from Bach's D minor Partita is bound to fall short. The notorious difficulty of the piece makes it virtually unplayable, and any evaluation must be based on a comparison with some mythical perfect performance. Criticism thus becomes even more subjective than usual. Mr. Fuchs' idea of the music as a gradual build-up in tension followed by a gradual release, with regularly-spaced interludes of quasicommentary, is extremely provocative. His failure to sustain and integrate this conception was caused primarily by the physical demands of multiple-stops and prodigious leaps that frequently leave interpretation behind...
Miss Fuchs fared somewhat better in her selections from Bach's suite in E-flat. Originally written for cello, many of the difficulties are minimized by using the smaller instrument. I disliked her phrasing in the Prelude, but in matters of tone and technique, she was almost as good as the music she played...