Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening selection was programmed as Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Mr. Berman quickly informed his audience that it did not cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart...
...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...
Fortnight ago, ending his second tour of Australia, he sounded a bitter note. Riffling through his press notices he read that though his Schubert had "surprising warmth." his Mozart was merely "well-bred," his Bach...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing selections by Bach, Lotti, and Berlioz, and a group of Welsh and Italian folk songs and choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan arranged by Archibald T. Davison...
...together as a rounded piece of entertainment. The script so weakens the true story of the great collaborators that it is blown about like a dead leaf in each gust of song. The real human interest lies in the history of Sullivan's attempts to make himself "a Bach, when he was only...