Word: bachs
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DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, classical violinist who played everything from Bartok to Bach in his own impassioned style; of heart failure; in New York City. He practiced obsessively. "I have begged him not to play so much," manager Sol Hurok told the New York Times in 1959. "I tell him, 'The less you play, the longer you will play.' It does no good." Stern was a generous teacher who mentored and encouraged cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax (see Eulogy, below...
Sophomore Laura Powers hit for 11 kills and a .529 hitting percentage, freshman Katie Anderson knocked in 14 kills and a .313 hitting percentage, junior Rachel Bach swatted 13 kills and a .348 hitting percentage...
MARK MORRIS, choreographer: "I'm not a religious person, but I find Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ, arrangement for string quartet and vocal quartet, profoundly troubling and serene. And if anything is divine, it's Bach's Mass in B Minor...
...various owners, Adrien-François Servais, and for the past 20 years has been kept in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach's six solo suites, which were composed about 20 years after Stradivari put the finishing touches to the instrument...
...pitfalls that await unformed artists who push themselves (or are pushed) too hard. Now, at 21, she is a fully mature musician with a style all her own. Says Fred Rogers, on whose TV show Hahn has appeared: "She can play a very complicated, unaccompanied piece by Bach, and then two minutes later play Tree, Tree, Tree, which is one of the most simple songs in the world. But when Hilary plays them, she makes them both sound as if she has invested her whole self in the music...