Word: organists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choir--hoping to raise $3000---will perform Bach's Passion According to St. John in Memorial Church, John Ferris, University organist, said yesterday. Memorial Church will sponsor the concert so that all profits may go to the Institute...
...young. At the weekly Bach cantata performances at Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the congregation sports more beards than button-downs, appears to be almost entirely under 35. "Students will brave rainstorms to wait in line for standing room at a Bach recital," marvels German Organist Helmut Walcha. Record stores report a marked increase in the number of teen-agers thronging around the classical counters, buying up Bach without so much as a glance at the new Beatles album...
...exaggeration as the notion that he is a dry, abstract musician's musician. Because so much of his work was intended for use in worship, he has traditionally been known as "the fifth evangelist," pealing out a musical gospel from some celestial organ loft. "For me," wrote French organist Charles Marie Widor in 1907, "Bach is the greatest of preachers." Two years ago, three Venetian music lovers wrote to the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica, suggesting that Bach, even though he was a Lutheran, ought to be canonized as a saint...
...true that Bach's chorales are still widely used at Protestant services-and in the ecumenical climate of modern Roman Catholicism, no organist would hesitate to use his setting of Luther's A Mighty Fortress as a prelude to Sunday Mass. Still, the mode of Christian worship is not that of Bach's time, and the impact of his compositions, whether secular or sacred, stems largely from a general feeling of transcendence in the music. "He will give Christianity to Christians, Judaism to Jews, even Communism to Communists," says Karl Richter, conductor of the Munich Bach Choir...
...simple accompaniment, from rich harmonic modulations toward more basic cadences, and from daring elaboration toward the cultivation of controlled elegance. Bach's composer sons-notably Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann -were all attracted to this style. After his death, Bach was mourned as a fine organist and teacher, but for 70 years his reputation as a composer was kept alive only by a few enthusiasts and composers, notably Mozart and Beethoven...