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...best Christmas cover story for a long, long time. Every word brought illumination and joy; you had the symmetry, the inevitable Tightness in every part. You have an art of your own. I left a reading of every word with a sense of completeness; the Bach violin partitas began sounding through my mind as I got up. You caught the heart of the Bachian Restoration in a magnificent end-of-year cadenza. What is better for space travel than the accompaniment of Bach? Long live Bach...
...Anhalt-Cothen; the defection so angered Duke Wilhelm that Bach was clapped in the Weimar jail for a month. Once he arrived at Cothen, Bach devoted five placid, productive years to superb keyboard and chamber pieces, including the French Suites for harpsichord, the unaccompanied music for cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from his secular music for sacred occasions, just as Martin Luther had used love songs and barrack ballads for some...
...that and eventually lead to TV sets with built-in EVR units. "EVR will make education as compelling as TV entertainment," Goldmark insists. He points out that with EVR, a backwoods teacher could become an educational paragon, ordering lectures by Robert Lowell on poetry, by Zino Francescatti on the violin, by the President of the U.S. on politics...
Born in Hungary, and possessed of a rich musical heritage (he enjoys playing his cello to his mother's violin accompaniment), the grey-haired Goldmark hardly seems the Edison-style scientific adventurer. But after studying physics at the University of Vienna, he became so captivated by television that he turned to electronics and moved to the U.S. in 1933 to apply for a job with RCA. He was blithely unaware of the Depression-until he was abruptly turned down. He finally joined CBS in the early days of broadcast TV. "We did everything-put on the show, ran transmitters...
...nods and sings along, sometimes snapping his fingers to indicate rhythm. His few comments are deceptively simple. "Intonation," he murmurs, or, "That's it, that's it." When something goes wrong, he raises an eyebrow; the music stops cold. Then he picks up his 1680 Nicola Amati violin and, filling the room with a full, rich tone, shows how the passage should sound. "Mark that," he says...