Bach played at Easter (April 24) and may have performed Cantata BWV 4. At the city council meeting on May 24 no other name was considered, and on June 14, Bach was interviewed. He asked for the same salary that he was receiving at Arnstadt (some 20 gulden more than Ahle’s); the...
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Jay’s solo collection includes the quirky encore pieceWhat The Bird Saidfor solo Piccolo, his melancholic pieceThe Pathos of Broken Thingsfor solo Flute as well as his reconstruction of Bach’s famous Cello Prelude in hisDéjà Vufor solo Alto Saxophone. Jay’s protective charmTalismanfor solo...
Among many classical composers, my sensibilities (in no particular order) are Holst, Barber, Elgar, Beethoven, Boellmann, Widor, Bach, Vierne, Copland, Mahler, Debussy, Satie, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Sibelius, and more recently, Glass, Lauridsen, Tavener, and Richter. ...
I have ever met is a genius Alla Elana Cohen, American composer. The meeting with her struck me, because it resurrected in me the feeling of connection with Eternity–the same feeling I have listening to music by Bach, or reading Goethe's poetry... "Hear the ...
(1844). Much more than a technical handbook, it served later generations as an introduction to theaestheticsof expressiveness in music. AsAlbert Schweitzerhas shown, its principle is as applicable to Bach as to Berlioz, and it is in no way governed by considerations of so-calledprogram music....
This animation of ideas reminds me of the book,Bach and the Patterns of Invention, in which Lawrence Dreyfus argues that Bach understood “invention” as the “idea behind a piece, a musical subject whose discovery precedes full-scale composition.” Borrowed from ...
“decorative”symphonyto be superficial,frivolous, and unworthy to compete with the Teutonic Bach-Beethoven-Wagner tradition. The character of his own music revealedmeticulousconstruction but also a certain lyricism. His harmony and counterpoint were laboriously worked out, but in his later work, free...
Music by H Schütz, F Mendelssohn and J S Bach is also on the programme. Lovely is Your Dwelling is a setting of Psalm 84 from the Book of Psalms in the form of a cantata in five movements where three forceful choir movements alternate with two softly lyrical sections focused around solo...
Iceland was attending performances of the Bach "St. John Passion" and Haydn's "The Seasons", both given by local church choirs and the Reykjavik orchestra. I seldom thought about music during the war because all my assignments were full-time jobs that took most of my energies." - L.A....