Word: toccatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the last concert of the Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series for the spring semester takes place on Thursday, June 1. If you're still around, you can listen to organist James Higbe play Bach's Concerto in Cmajor, Toccata and Fugue in d minor ("Dorian") and other works. Call 495-2317 for more info. And have a good summer...
...make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance-and for the skill with which he argued his claims-Stokowski earned the adulation of audiences, the grudging admiration of most critics, the constant hostility of musical purists...
...plays all day. Clough types the musical program on a tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Verdi's Otello, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, selections from Puccini and Mozart...
...Robbery (1913). The Phantom of the Opera. This must be the 1925 Rupert Julian American version with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin (the best version), because Harkness Commons is featuring a live piano player. Too bad there can't be an organ there for the Phantom pumping away at Toccata and Fugue in the sewers under the Opera House...
...crystal, installed a light show and his Rodgers Touring Organ-a 4,000-lb. electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. "Go-o-o-o-o, Virgil!" yelled a handsome man with a bushy Afro. Replied Fox: "Sebastian Bach is delighted you are here...