Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsal had begun with Bach's Suite No. 2 for Flute and Strings--chosen, no doubt, to show off the new female flutist, Doriot Anthony. Her crystal clear tone and prodigious breath control clicited applause from both audience and orchestra...
...gods," veteran First Flutist Georges Laurent of the Boston Symphony, was retiring. But she had experience and solid training (at Rochester's Eastman School), and she applied for the position anyway. In July she traveled to Tanglewood for an audition with Conductor Charles Munch. She played him some Bach, waited while other applicants took their turns, then went back twice more to show what she could do with Debussy and Ravel. Munch took two months to decide. It was not until fortnight ago that a phone call came through from Boston: she could be first flutist, on a year...
...Lowell House junior seemed plagued by nervousness throughout the first half of his program. In Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue he missed too many notes and his stiff interpretation did not do justice to this most rhapsodic of all Bach's keyboard works...
...JULIAN BACH...
Your Invitation to Music (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Fifteen choruses from Bach's B Minor Mass by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...