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...SADE (Verve). The title is a tortured joke, but the music is airy and inventive, if a bit dry. It consists of jazz improvisations on classical, Renaissance and medieval styles of music. Several ensembles, one predominantly strings (Beneath a Weeping Willow Shade), one heavy on the horns (Blues for Johann Sebastian), are led by Schifrin, who also plays an ornamental harpsichord...
...three madrigals were Thomas Morley's "Phyllis I fain would die now," Mein Schifflein lief in wilden Meer by Johann Schein, and the two-part madrigal Altri canti di Marte by Claudio Monteverdi. They were sung under the direction of Mr. Schmidt by the Chamber Chorus. The Chamber Chorus, which is made up of a small portion of the Summer School Chorus, produces an over-all sound which, while generally excellent, sometimes becomes a bit too rich and developed to permit the listener to savor the true flavor of this type of music. The actual interpretation of the music -- balancing...
...request for secrecy was understandable, for Crepin's successor as NATO's top operational commander was a former German panzer officer, General Johann Adolf Count von Kielmansegg, 59. Equally understandable was German reluctance to overplay the fact that Bonn's 400,000-man Bundeswehr looms even larger than before in the alliance's military structure...
...effect is that of making Mondrian's Boogie-Woogie paintings swing. Agam calls his works "contrapuntals," has even named one Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach for its fugue of color. He uses this oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...
...Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...