Word: toccatas
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...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...
...years Fox, a nonsectarian theist, held the prestigious post of organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church. In those days, his most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...
...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...
...appearance of abstract art in Disney's work was fleeting. There was the Toccata and Fugue in Fantasia, with its pastel runs of animated Kandinsky. Now and then the studio would come up with an image that, while not really abstract, seems a distant reference to early European constructivism like the gush of music drawn as prismatic blocks issuing from the mouth of a dancing horn in Make Mine Music (1946). And, more distantly still, some of the Disney fantasies do run parallel to themes of high art, without displaying any awareness of their patrician Doppelgängers...