Word: toccatas
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...concert in 1929, bushy beloved Sir Henry Wood, famed English conductor, led his orchestra through Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in Moscow." clapped loud & long. The Klenovsky transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music...
...Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston, will be given Thursday evening, July 27, at 7.15 o'clock. Mrs. Louise Serra Hollister, violinist, will assist. The program, which will last for approximately one-half hour, follows: Psalm XIX--Marcello (Mr. Phelps), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring--Bach (Mrs. Hollister), Toccata and Fugue in D Minor--Bach (Mr. Phelps), Un Bateau--Debussy (Mrs. Hollister), Suite Gothique Choral-Introduction, Minuet, Priere, Toccata.--Boellmann (Mr. Phelps...
When the new film began with the playing of a Toccata and Fugue of Bach and set the key beautifully for what was sistently imaginative telling of an im-to follow, this reviewer hoped for a conaginative story. But no; before long, sandwiched in between the most admirable scenes in the London fog, there had to be a lot of silly dialogue and a wholly gratuitous love affair. Mr. March, after rattling the locks of old doors so splendidly, had to rattle the bones of old melodrama with such observations as "I give you up because I love...
...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...