Word: johann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cultural pyramid up which the listener is led "from good to better." Ideally, listeners begin this cultural mountain climb by tuning into the Light Program. As its name implies, the Light is aimed at the great mass of people who would rather listen to Irving Berlin than Johann Sebastian Bach. Of all British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have a Go! features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial...
...Johann Strauss Wrote "Die Fledermaus"; But Richard wrote properer Opera...
Antonio Vivaldi, the red-bearded master of counterpoint who was known in his native Venice as "Il prete rosso" (The red priest), composed some 40 operas and 400 concerti grossi. Some of them fascinated his contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach, so much that Bach made numerous Vivaldi transcriptions. This month, on the heels of the worldwide Bach anniversary celebrations, Italy's Cetra-Soria Co. has put the case for its countryman in two handsome LP albums. The first includes the Piano Concerto in B Minor, rearranged from Bach's transcription, the Concerto Grosso in D Minor...
...Communists, who have extradited a good many famed and foreign dead, were now serving a summons on Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Prades' Church of St. Pierre in the French Pyrenees, every pew, aisle and choir stall was crammed with hushed listeners. As the last tones of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata for Soprano and Bass, No. 32 floated away, there was silence. Then, in an unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof...