Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like getting "lushed" (drunk), and all the squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...
...outfits of navy-blue linen. They ranked themselves on the steps under the Bell Harry tower in the light of Canterbury's great west window. Then, for an hour, in bell-clear tones, they sang a difficult program of religious music: a Gregorian chant, 13th-century motets, a Bach chorale, U.S. Composer Normand Lockwood's The Bird of Moses and a Negro spiritual, Jesus Walked This Lonely Valley. The Smith College Chamber Singers were on their second annual tour of Europe...
...cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed his thesis on Calvinism : Dr. M. Willard Lampe (Presbyterian), the School of Religion's director, Dr. Marcus Bach (Evangelical and Reformed), Father Robert Welch (Catholic), the Rev. Cyrus Pangborn (Congregationalist). Rabbi Frederick Bargebuhr, plus two members of the university's history department...
After a somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...
Vivaldi, master violinist that he was, proved again that he wrote more beautifully for strings than any of his contemporaries, e.g., Bach and Handel. And his music is permeated with a sunny warmth unequaled by his northern competitors. The Herald Tribunes Virgil Thomson ended his review with a burst of continental enthusiasm. "Evviva Vivaldi! And let's have more of him." There is plenty more to hear, and the Vivaldi boom shows every sign of settling down into a thorough, long-range revival...