Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will open her program with four works by Bach. These will be followed by The Fugue in A flat Minor, by Brahms, Schonster Herr Jesu, by Schroeder, and The Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, by Piston...
...time Baby Gloria, now thrice wed and svelte at 35, was the mother battling for control of her own children, Stani, 8, and Christi, 7. Against her was arrayed the forbidding personality of husband No. 2 (1945-55),* Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski, famed for the way he overbutters his Bach. This time Mother was the victor...
Time after time, the payoff was extraordinary. One of Bach's students was shy, skinny, 17-year-old Mark Kauffman, owner of a rickety Speed Graphic and the sole support of his parents, two sisters and 14 brothers. "Go out and cover Eleanor Roosevelt," said Bach to Mark one afternoon in 1939. At a press conference, Kauffman snapped unobtrusively in the background, produced one of the most human, humorous pictures of the First Lady ever taken. A week later it adorned the cover of LIFE, and Kauffman...
...Bach's students have left the country some of its most stunning pictorial records: George Strock's heart-stopping World War II scene of a dead American soldier on Buna Beach in New Guinea, Bob Landry's slinky wartime pinup of Rita Hay worth (reprinted 60 million times), the distinguished Korean war photographs of Hank Walker and John Dominis. Today, Fremont High is still turning out expert Bach graduates. But fewer are able to cash in on Bach's training: the school has become predominantly Negro, and Teacher Bach confronts a color line (though...
...Bach aims to circle the world soon and check up on his proteges. Last week, as scores of them descended on Los Angeles for a banquet in his honor and messages poured in from others, Teacher Bach had a thought. "I might even get a job from one of them," he mused as his spectacles slid down his nose. "You never know what those monkeys are going...