Word: organ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only disappointments of the program were the Buxtehude setting of Ein feste Burg, an uninspired set of variations, and the postlude, the brilliant Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses...
...University Choir is an outstanding choral group. Their performance of the Bach Cantata No. 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, should be well worth hearing. The Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel is particularly suited to this sort of program...
...September issue of Ms, the Women's Lib organ suggested that NASA is a male-chauvinist bastion that has barred qualified women from competing for berths as astronauts. Whatever the truth of that charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Mary Beekman, positiv organ, playing selections from the Bach Klavieruebung. Free. Friday, October...
...music. Written the same year as the Symphony and dedicated to his recently-deceased father, it builds from a quiet start through a restless central section for strings. The climax at the end is spectacular: the large orchestra (augmented by two extra horns and ophicleide) is joined by the organ. To see the Royal Albert Hall in London and the organ there is to know where In Memoriam belongs...