Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a jealously guarded possession, and judgments of any new Bach performer are sharply critical, especially if the performer is a foreigner. But last week a Munich audience applauded a harpsichord recital played by a middle-aged American housewife. As Virginia Pleasants performed Bach's French Overture and a Rameau suite, cognoscenti listened attentively, demanded seven curtain calls...
Fanciers of Johann Sebastian Bach are a disputatious lot given to occult probings into the spirit of the Master. Some like their Bach feathery and ice-edged; some like him broad and deliberate. The undisputed queen of the "broad" Bach school is Chicago-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, who for the past five years has been building an impressive reputation in Europe's concert halls (TIME, July 29, 1957). Last week the New York Philharmonic provided J.S.B.'s Manhattan fans with a rare treat: an all-Bach program at which Pianist Tureck appeared as the first female conductor...
Swiss Family Robinson (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Johann Wyss's fine old classic brings the marooned Robinsons back to life, with Walter Pidgeon and Laraine...
Leverett House, with a 2-1 record, looms as one of Eliot's principle contenders for the honor of repesenting Harvard against the Elis late in November. Joe Pellegrino, Johann Moultebolum, and Nick Mace are the mainstays of the Bunny roster...
...wine breathing through huge oaken casks. Ducking an occasional low-swooping swallow, the audience settled back near the twisting vines of the Pinot Noir grape for an afternoon of music and champagne. If the wine was only domestic, the music was great or rare: Beethoven, 18th century German Composer Johann Schobert, 76-year-old Italian Composer G. Francesco Malipiero...