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...seven teenage heroes. In the Spielberg tradition, each youngster uses his or her ordinary strengths to forge, and then save, a community of lost souls. Wise-Guy Mouth (Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on an old map; Data (Ke Huy-Quan) gets out of scrapes with his Rube Goldberg gadgets; pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does; athletic Brand (Josh Brolin) muscles his way through calamity; and his little brother Mikey (Sean Astin...
...sure enough, this Sunday afternoon, these very experiments will take place. Jeffrey L. Goldberg '86, who will direct Sunday afternoon's Musical Offering explains his role: "What I'm doing may not satisfy purists who aren't used to hearing Bach on synthesizer, harp, trombone, or sax, but Bach can stand and transcend particular musical instruments." He added, "As the Musical Offering was Bach's response to the newest instrument of his day--the piano--we're applying it to the newest instruments of ours...
...Goldberg said that unlike the music of some of the romantic composers, Bach's music is so strong that one can almost play it on any instrument, and it will stand...
...said Goldberg, "Bach had the incredible ability to switch from the most learned to the most modern styles. It makes every generation learn something new from him. He can weather the fads of time...
...Goldberg saw this division as needless. "Bach's able to do these technical acrobatics with counterpoint, but that's not the point. It's music and it sounds beautiful. Sometimes people make an artificial dichotomy between this scientific aspect and the musical one. That isn't there," he said...