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Bach: Piano Pieces (Pianist Grace Castagnetta; Victor; 8 sides) and The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach (a book) by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon and Schuster). A new stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with...
Containing everything from the Pierian well water of Johann Sebastian Bach to the violet-bordered stream of Schubert's Ave Maria, Fantasia is a long succession of very large orders. Some of these orders (the flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave...
...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...
...August 1703, "by the most gracious privilege of His Imperial Roman Majesty," a Viennese printer, one Johann Baptist Schönwetter (John Baptist Lovelyweather), started a court paper called Diarium. Vienna was capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Leopold I was Emperor. Said Printer Schönwetter of his paper: "It contains everything notable which occurs from day to day in this town of Vienna, as well as in other places all over the world...
...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...