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When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion...
...List includes all the religious music of Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, most of Haydn's and Beethoven's. Blacklisted also are such treacly items as At Dawning, I Love You Truly, Good Night Sweet Jesus and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. The great Johann Sebastian Bach, though he was a Lutheran, is on the White List...
...seizure shook Argentina, for the Bembergs are the richest family in the country, one of the richest in the world. Otto Bemberg came from Germany in 1868. His son, Otto Sebastian, made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted...
...theory known as "equal temperament" permits the tuning of a keyboard instrument so that it can be played in any key with equal facility. It was the inspiration for Johann Sebastian Bach's famous collection of 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys: The Well-Tempered Clavichord...
...vast majority of church organists who cannot bear the cinemorgans but will make discreet use of the variously colored "romantic" effects possible on all modern-style organs. Third are the growing number of classicists, who favor the 17th-Century style of organ used by the great Johann Sebastian Bach - and who make modern-style organs sound as much as possible like Bach organs, or play instruments made on 17th-Century lines...