Word: sweelinck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biggs is ready to play," said an authoritative voice and everyone trooped to folding chairs facing the organ. The notes struck, proud and singing, from the compact, shiny instrument as Biggs played works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (appropriately enough), Franck, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Bach...
Biggs' choice of program was ill-advised. He began with no less than five lengthy sets of variations--by Pasquini, Valente, Soler, Sweelinck and Handel. The theme-and-variations format has produced more dull music than any other, from the Middle Ages to rock 'n' roll. And many of the greatest composers have failed at it. The high quality of the Valente and Sweelinck works was partially obscured by the numbing tediousness of the Pasquini and Soler. The Handel work--the so-called "Harmonious Blacksmith" set--comes from a harpsichord suite and does not belong on the organ, despite...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...
...Others: Holland's Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Italy's Giovanni Gabrielli, Claudio Monteverdi and Girolomo Frescobaldi...
...enthusiastic audience of 500 heard. Delaney's work as the central piece in a program of choral music. Other works included Cantatas No. 61 and 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Choruses from Jephtha" by Geroge Frederick Handel, Two Cantiones Cacrae by J. P. Sweelinck, and The Last Words of David by Randall Thompson...