Word: passacaglias
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When Conductor Eugene Ormandy last week led the Philadelphia Orchestra through its final Manhattan performance of the season, listeners were pleasantly startled at Lucien Cailliet's transcription of a 17th Century passacaglia by Dietrich Buxtehude. Through its 28 melodic evolutions they could unmistakably recognize the theme Bach had later expanded and used in his great Passacaglia in C Minor.* But few in the audience had ever heard more about Buxtehude than his odd name. Important as is his niche in the history of music, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a great organist whose works are rarely played...
...Passacaglia: a 17th Century organ form, usually constructed on a ground bass, using a theme of two, four or eight bars...
...Stradivarius Quartet, an admirable chamber music group, is to give a concert in the central court of Fogg Art Museum next Tuesday evening. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, arranged by Alfred Pochon, Beethoven's Quartet in D major (Opus 18), and Haydn's Quartet in B flat major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust...
...oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston was apathetic...
...even in the Allegro and Presto. The conventional ornaments for the sake of virtuosity are scarce. Menuhin's own playing is restrained in the classic traditional but always virile. "His Master's Voice" has recorded the Mozart sonata. Another recent recording by "His Master's Voice" is the great "Passacaglia and Fugue in C" of Bach, played by Marcel Dupre in good French style, perhaps too French...