Word: bachs
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...could go to synagogue and sing a Bach cantata then I'd be there every week," he says...
...What I think is most impressive," Amy C. Offner '01 said, "is that he can sit down at the piano and improvise full fugues in the style of Bach on the spot. I'd always heard that the only person in history who was able to do this was Bach himself." Indeed, Elkies admits he can improvise fugues, "at least on reasonable themes in a slow enough tempo...
...anymore. Baby Einstein's new sibling videos include Baby Mozart, Baby Bach and, the latest release, Baby Shakespeare. Each capitalizes on Aigner-Clark's love of the humanities and her customers' desire to raise brighter babies. The videos are sold at a variety of stores. Sales reached $4.5 million last year...
...composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World War II. Unlike such devotees of dissonance as Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, they happily embrace traditional tonality, the harmonic language of most Western music, from Bach to rock. "I don't believe in the cliche that art has to reflect its times--that since we're living in a horrible age, our music has to rub your face in it," says Liebermann...
...were no African-Americans in the classical music arena." He found Harvard to be a place "where you dream your dreams and act on it." With mentors such as Archie C. Epps III, Jackson participated in numerous campus musical organizations including the Harvard Glee Club, Leverett House Opera, the Bach Society, Harvard University Choir and the Harvard Band. He even was a music reviewer for The Crimson. After testing his dreams at Harvard, Jackson decided to act on them and soon entered the professional music world...