Word: bachs
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...London, Scott currently holds the same posts at St. Thomas’s in New York City, perennially one of the best choirs in New York. Over the course of a life devoted to the organ, he has earned an impressive array of awards, including the prestigious International J.S. Bach Organ Competition in Leipzig. Lauded as “the premier English organist of his generation…in a class of his own,” by the Manchester Evening News, Scott is best known for his virtuosic performances of large-scale Romantic and twentieth century repertoire. He commands...
...lines lead into glorious faux-hardcore breakdowns. Yet across the genre, cheesy overharmonized lines abound, suggesting the danger of complexity for its own sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique is nothing new; loftier versions of these accusations have been leveled at Handel and Bach for their own contrapuntal (mis)adventures. These compositions may be seen as pedantic, heavy-handed, passionless or academic. But without the occasional excess of ornamentation, Baroque would never have lived up to its rococo potential, math rock would just be rock, and legions of bored teenagers would never have laid...
...man’s dignity. While many in America are content to smirk at Europe’s failures, or take some measure of pleasure in its impending collapse, we should all pray and hope that the continent that gave us not only Hitler and Stalin but also Beethoven, Bach, Locke, and Kant can save itself from its accelerating descent into inconsequence...
...could have toured with a symphony orchestra, he instead gave lessons to several young cellists, myself included, at a small music camp in the Berkshires. I remember the same man who played in Carnegie at age 13 ate on picnic benches with his students and played Bach for us in a barn. Today, Haimovitz is still willing to get his hands dirty to help people fall in love with classical music and he makes sure that everyone is welcome. Haimovitz’s approach to his career has been equally unorthodox—he opens his newest album...
...jump-start his creative juices, the Pulitzer winner and best-selling author (Den of Thieves) practices piano for an hour each morning. "The thorniest kind of music, like Bach, is best," he says. "It refreshes the brain because you can't do it unless you exclude everything else and concentrate." To stay creative, he believes, one must cultivate curiosity. "I love reading the paper with an eye to what's missing. I get all kinds of ideas from that...