Word: toccatas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the automobile of Composer Roy Harris, 31, were stolen last week in Manhattan a new symphony and a toccata. Police bumbled sympathetically, asked him to describe the music. Said he: "I just put it down as 160 pages of music. What I really tried to do ... was express the meaning of America...
...Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music...