Word: bachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's program started off with Trio for flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
...hundred years ago . . . The first quality demanded of a composer is that he must be dead." ¶ "We all know that a man who is exposed to strong light for a certain length of time becomes blind. Our existence is a constant exposure to noise . . . The noise may be Bach's B-Minor Mass or just a bunch of accordions. The same noise, you find it in the streets, in cafes, in restaurants, even in taxicabs. Imagine a man who has heard the same Beethoven symphony maybe six times a day in this fashion. Do you expect...
...grown-up beginners (oldest: 60) who think they have missed something along the way, and a few advanced students too. Latest Gabriel enterprise: a series of Saturday morning radio shows this fall, on Manhattan's city-owned WNYC, aimed at youngsters and featuring standard study pieces from Mozart, Bach and Clementi, played as the composers intended them. Says Gabriel: "After that, the music won't sound so much like exercises...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony is used to being called one of the "great" orchestras of the world-whether it chooses to play Bach, Beethoven or Bartok. The British verdict on the Philharmonic last week, after two Edinburgh Festival performances: good, with reservations...
...enthusiastic audience of 500 heard. Delaney's work as the central piece in a program of choral music. Other works included Cantatas No. 61 and 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Choruses from Jephtha" by Geroge Frederick Handel, Two Cantiones Cacrae by J. P. Sweelinck, and The Last Words of David by Randall Thompson...