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    Lebanon chorus preps for winter show  Dec 4, 2008
    He has a master s degree in music education from the University of Oregon and has sung with the University Singers, the city of Eugene Concert Choir, the Eugene Symphony Chorus, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorale and the Corvallis Repertory Singers. For more information, contact Wong at (541) 451-8555, or see the website at. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Bedroom Bach? YouTube starts a cyber symphony, HFR  Dec 3, 2008
    Updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:49 AM CST FONT SIZE. YouTube starts a cyber symphony, HFR. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    The Experimental Cinema of Takashi Ishida: A Treatise  Dec 2, 2008
    Ishidas 18-minute The Art of Fugue (2001) sets the music of Bach to a series of abstract images, beginning with a series of rotating geometric shapes, eventually depicting animations of ornate Japanese emaki (picture scrolls). This film, like so much of Ishidas work, captures the balance between purity and discipline, and is a staggeringly beautiful work of art. (Varsity)

    A Viterbo Christmas’ concert selections span the centuries  Dec 1, 2008
    Christmas cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Daniel Pinkham will highlight this year s A Viterbo Christmas holiday musical concerts Saturday and Sunday. The Viterbo University Concert Choir, directed by Jean Saladino, will open the concert with Bach s cantata Now Come, the Savior of Mankind, written in 1714 for the advent season. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Swiss piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu, who makes his Royal Festival Hall debut in London on Tuesday, tells swissinfo about young fans, musical heroes and football.  Nov 30, 2008
    Bach makes me think he wasn't human ... T.G.: Bach is just unbelievable ... Without Bach, music wouldn't be where it is now. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)

    Daniel Barenboim set for Metropolitan Opera debut  Nov 28, 2008
    "Life is not the same after 'Tristan.' Musical life, musical works, everything, after 'Tristan' has to be seen through 'Tristan's eyes. And even the music before 'Tristan' is looked at differently. It is one of those pivotal works, like the 'Well-Tempered Clavier' has been of Bach," he said. "The harmonic language is stretched to the maximum, like an elastic, and there was no beyond that, and therefore new had to come.". (New York Post)

    Out & About: Roundup of holiday concerts  Nov 28, 2008
    The Rockingham Choral Society, directed by Andrew Gaydos, will celebrate the holiday season with the concerts "An Epiphany in Advent" on Saturday, Dec. 6, at Rye Congregational Church at 7:30 p.m.; and on Sunday, Dec. 7, at Christ Church Episcopal in Exeter at 3 p.m. In these special concerts, the Society will sing sacred works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ... The concert program features works by Britten and Bach, several Hebrew folk songs, African-American spirituals,... (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    New German Symphony will perform Sunday in Lake Wales  Nov 27, 2008
    The concert is free and open to the public, Statom said, and includes Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Vivaldi. Statom said it was a great way to end the Thanksgiving weekend and begin the Advent season. (Lake Wales News, FL)

    Boris Johnson urges highbrow culture to target young with opera ...  Nov 26, 2008
    Unless you find one of those rap tracks that sample Bach or Borodin :). Emma, Munich, Germany. (Times Online)

    Celebrate Thanksgiving at free choral concert  Nov 25, 2008
    Musical highlights include J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter's Gloria ... PROGRAM: J. S. BACH: Magnificat. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Classical music offerings for holiday entertainment  Nov 23, 2008
    Works by Corelli, Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach will be performed. Dec. 20 in Faneuil Hall and Dec. 21 at Marsh Chapel, 733 Commonwealth Ave., $25 to $35, 617-648-3885. (Boston Globe)

    Theater, dance, music ready to inspire holiday spirit  Nov 23, 2008
    Geoff Bach returns to play the Grinch. Each show will feature a different Cindy Lou Who, with one Cindy chosen through a raffle drawing. (Erie Times-News, PA)

    Music review: Symphony masters Mahler's Eighth  Nov 22, 2008
    With the orchestra, and especially the first and second violins, spread out across vast distances on the Davies stage, Mahler's intricate counterpart - like Bach on steroids - emerged with unprecedented transparency. You could hear the almost physical impact of Mahler's writing in the most close-knit passages. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Contemplating eternal rest, with an extra electric twang  Nov 18, 2008
    Secession prefaced the work with selections by Bach ("Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden") and Brahms ("O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf") - choices that seemed to serve double duty by presumably drawing audience members more familiar with these composers as well as making an argument that Schnittke's work should be viewed in dialogue with the Austro-German musical tradition ... The Bach and Brahms motets were capably sung with a pure and carefully blended ensemble tone, though the resonant acoustics in... (Boston Globe)

    Chorus opens 50th season with Vaughn Williams Hodie  Nov 14, 2008
    A frequent guest soloist with the Bethlehem Bach Festival, William Sharp appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Society, the New York Festival of Song, the Bard Music Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the St. Luke s Chamber Ensemble. He is also known for his performances of the early music repertoire, and frequently performs as soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and the American Bach Soloists. (Westerly Sun, RI)

    Guest artist Diba Alvi to perform in 'Coloratura'  Nov 13, 2008
    Alvi will be accompanied by Tim Reynolds on piano and Bach performing artist Dr. David Champouillon, ETSU professor of trumpet and director of Jazz Studies, on piccolo trumpet. For more information or special assistance for those with disabilities, call the Department of Music at (423) 439-4276. (East Tennessean, TN)

    * How to speak JAZZ  Nov 10, 2008
    Bop is a fast-moving small-group music of intricate melodies and subtle chords X and saxophonist Charlie Parker is its hipster JS Bach. Because bop is a cerebral music, jazz begins to be displaced as a pop music by rock in the 1950s. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Top Dror’ Israeli pianist to play benefit for Hillel (1)  Nov 10, 2008
    His solo program on a Steinway grand piano will feature three composers: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, each representing, respectively, the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods of classical music. Biran will first perform the Prelude and Fugue in G-Sharp Minor from J.S. Bach s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II.. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Bach highlights Yogyakarta music fest  Nov 7, 2008
    Alongside Mozart and Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach is one of Europe's most famous composers. J.S. Bach (1685-1850) was a virtuoso organist who was famous throughout Germany even during his lifetime, a fame which only a few famous classic composers equaled ... Bach served as a court musician in various German cities, his most famous post probably being as cantor and director of music in Leipzig. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)

    Maestro Falletta Conducts Classical Guitar Superstar Sharon Isbin  Nov 5, 2008
    A former student of Rosalyn Tureck, she collaborated with the noted keyboardist in preparing the first performance editions of the Bach lute suites for guitar (published by G. Schirmer). She received a B.A. Cum laude from Yale University and a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Connolly to help Masterworks Chorale launch season  Nov 1, 2008
    org and click on Audio Samples to hear short excerpts from Bach s Saint John Passion and seldom-performed music from Robert Schumann s Mass and Requiem. Masterworks Chorale business partner Grafton Street Pub and Grill is offering ticket-holders to each of the three Sanders Theatre concerts a complimentary dessert. (Somerville Journal, MA)

    Brian Blade takes a unique approach to all of his collaborations  Oct 31, 2008
    "No player has been more important to the Fellowship's big picture than pianist Cowherd, who traces his relationship with Blade back to the late 1980s, when they met as students at Loyola University in New Orleans. While Lanois produced Fellowship's debut, Cowherd and Blade coproduced the follow-up, 2000's "Perceptual" (Blue Note), and the band's long-awaited third release, "Season of Changes," which came out on Verve in April. The pianist also composed two of the album's most arresting tunes,... (Boston Globe)

    Thomas Dunn, 82; artist of music led the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston  Oct 30, 2008
    Three hundred years after the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas Dunn led the Handel and Haydn Society through a warm-up of the composer's B-Minor Mass, and then paused in Symphony Hall as chorus, orchestra, and soloists prepared for the evening's concert ... The society is dedicating its December performances of the "Messiah" and its Bach Christmas performances to Mr. Dunn. (Boston Globe)

    Classical Music Treat for Halloween  Oct 29, 2008
    Bach, Johann Sebastian: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. This is JS Bach's most famous organ piece, considered to be the most scary organ music ... Bach's Passacaglia and Thema Fugatum in c minor, Boccherini's Symphony No. 6, The House of the Devil, Brahms's Begraebensgesange (Funeral Hymn), Faure's Chant funeraire, Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, Mendelssohn's First Walpurgis Night, Paganini's Witches Dance, and Stravinsky's The Devil's Dance. (Suite101.com)

    Workshop celebrates 41st year of making music  Oct 29, 2008
    The fall workshop will feature the piano and harpsichord Renaissance music of Titelouse; Baroque music by Marais, Purcell, Telemann and music from Bach s French Suite; classical music by Schubert and Beethoven and movements from Mozart s Viennese Sonatina No. 3; Romantic music by Tchaikovsky, Schumann, music from Greig s Lyric Pieces; and contemporary music of Joplin, Prokofiev, Rakiff and Zimmer. Alto and tenor recorder selections will include Van Eyck from the Renaissance, Bach from the... (Lexington Minuteman, MA)

    Leonard Bernstein's genius lives on CDs and DVDs  Oct 26, 2008
    There's also a separate DG documentary he made for the BBC in 1985, "The Little Drummer Boy," in which Bernstein casts Mahler's music in terms of a man caught between two worlds - the German-Austrian tradition ranging from Bach to Brahms and Schumann, with its hope of Christian resurrection and afterlife, and his own Jewish earthy and earth-bound roots. A stretch. (Boston Globe)

    Why I am happy? Let me count the ways  Oct 26, 2008
    Next week, a classical music highlight will be a solo piano recital from Sally Christian, who will perform works by Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninoff (3 p.m. Nov. 2, First Congregational Church). The program includes the world premiere of a piece called "Nocturne," written in 2007 by composer Michael Kimbell, who will be in attendance. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)

    Despite its nice, classical music could use revival  Oct 25, 2008
    Carnegie Hall and New York Philharmonic concerts of Bach followed by Beethoven followed by Brahms arguably require religious reverence rather than the active, passionate engagement of a lights-on (or lights-flashing) rock, jazz, pop, alt-rock, or pop-electronic (choose your own terminology if you like) music experience ... He recognizes that the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms institution has its place, but emphasizes that the type of concert that we associate with tradition is not, in fact, so... (Yale Herald, CT)

    Steinway Schedules Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call  Oct 24, 2008
    Its notable products include Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, Ludwig snare drums and Steinway & Sons pianos. Through its online music retailer, ArkivMusic, the Company also distributes classical music recordings. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Renowned American Boychoir to perform in La Crosse  Oct 21, 2008
    Earlier this year, the choir performed Bach s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic and works by Leonard Bernstein and Mahler with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In June, the choir was the featured ensemble at the International Boys and Men s Choral Festival in the Czech Republic. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Steven Lipsitt composes with playful intent  Oct 19, 2008
    His choice of the three unusual solo instruments came partly from Lipsitt's desire to showcase as many of the BCO's principal wind and string players as possible on next weekend's program, which also includes concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, and Ignaz Holzbauer. It's a thoroughly tonal piece that Lipsitt hopes will come off as charming and playful, as well as skillfully constructed. (Boston Globe)

    Talk of the Town: They’re back...our winter visitors, that is  Oct 17, 2008
    The program opens with Bach s Third Orchestra Suite and showcases TCA s exceptional chamber orchestra ... Bach s Cantata 80, one of the composer s 200 extant church cantatas, incorporates what many consider to be the anthem of the Protestant movement throughout the piece. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)

    * [EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT]  Oct 17, 2008
    The program includes orchestra leader Lien Ya-wens (s) most recent composition Impressions, Vulperhorsts Fragile and Farandole and Smits Kamalot, as well as Ling Kou-chous (P) Eternal Child (Bh~), Alan Chans (s) Sweet Bach () and Ho Chen-chens (uu) In the Sky of Africa (DwU). Tomorrow at 7:30pm. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Weekend calendar  Oct 16, 2008
    S KILLINGWORTH - On Oct. 26 at 4 p.m., Emmanuel Church will host "The Four Seasons Plus" autumn concert with Douglas Bruce on organ and The Fair Winds Brass Ensemble performing carefully selected works by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Mozart, Randall Thompson and others in the historic setting. Admission is $15, students are $10, and children are free to the event on Emmanuel Church Road. (Middletown Press, CT)

    'Cello-mania' sweeps into IC  Oct 10, 2008
    "We've played everything from the Beatles to Bach to James Bond. We do every kind of music," Arnone said. "Any song can be arranged for a cello choir, if you're creative enough." Page 1 of 1. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    Vancouver's Tim Lee takes Sobey Art Award  Oct 8, 2008
    Making work in the large-format Cibachrome photo medium of the international A-list (he also makes video and sculpture), Lee has already leapfrogged over the Canadian gallery system to find representation in the leading commercial galleries of the United States and Europe (Cohan & Leslie in New York, Johnen + Schottle in Cologne and Lisson Gallery in London) ... This approach to photography taking an instrument assumed to be truth telling and making it bend reality is of a piece with Lee's... (Globe and Mail)

    Symphony opener a tour de force  Oct 7, 2008
    This opening night, which took place between a cocktail reception and a dancing soiree at the US Grant Hotel, has set the bar high indeed, and one can only wonder how the rest of the year at Copley Symphony Hall with favorites from Mahler, Holst, Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bach, and a world premiere by Bright Sheng will play out. Roxana Popescu, a San Diego writer, has written for the Union-Tribune, Newsweek, the Seattle Times, and the International Herald Tribune. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Italians fall under the outback spell  Oct 4, 2008
    "I used to play my music tapes in mum and dad's car's tape player - I think it was a silver Toyota; it even had an input for headphones. It was AC/DC for me, I love them in their Bon Scott days. But when I changed the tapes over in the car, the player switched automatically to the radio, to ABC-FM, classical."And I remember first hearing this music, it was Bach first then Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the rhythms, and thinking: 'Wow, that would be amazing to play one day. "Behind the stage the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Radio 2's new weekday lineup needs rethinking  Oct 4, 2008
    In this aesthetic universe, a symphony by William Boyce is on the same level as a partita by J. S. Bach, in spite of the extreme difference in artistic quality; and modernism is mostly off-limits ... Her comments are almost always some kind of anecdotal tidbit about the composer, or about how listening to Bach is one of the ways "I take care of myself." I would think that one of the reasons for hiring a skilled musician to take care of a show like this would be to get some intelligent inside... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    More of this story  Oct 4, 2008
    The ensemble will perform music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Graun and two Bachs (Johann Sebastian, he of the Brandenburg Concerto, and his cousin Johann Bernhard, most of whose compositions have been lost) on Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. Soloists for the evening are Vittorio Ghielmi on viola da gamba, Marion Verbruggen on recorder and Ilia Korol on violin ... If you haven't experienced the way it fills the hall with glorious music, then seize the opportunity when Chelsea Chen performs on Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m.... (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)

    Second award for tool kit  Oct 3, 2008
    The award for best classical album went to Richard Tognetti, Neal Peres Da Costaand Daniel Yeadon for Bach Sonatas For Violin And Keyboard. SUITS STAY DRY. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Ring in the Symphony  Oct 3, 2008
    "It's because we have our very own and very strong music traditions, Hindustani and Carnatic. This is in contrast to China or Japan wh 00004000 ere there has been a discontinuity from their old classical traditions." Fair enough reason, but the question to be confronted now is that in a world becoming smaller, where Indians move easily from one country to another, where there is transfer of know-ledge in every possible field, should we continue to say that our own musical world is enough, that... (India Times, India)

    Musical canvas: Artists create 'Painted Violins' for Missoula Symphony  Sep 22, 2008
    Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart: All were violinists. Even as classical music has taken a back seat to amplified forms of music over the past half-century, the violin has remained a beloved element in modern music. (Missoulian, MT)

    * Schmalfuss and the ESO: making sweet music together  Sep 21, 2008
    There are rules for how to write one, but then you find Bach going in some totally different direction ... No one who heard the ESOs fabulous rendering of Bachs B Minor Mass last March, performed with the Taipei Philharmonic Chorus and soloists, will doubt for a moment the truth of this ... As I got up to go, Schmalfuss said, You cant say Brahms is my favorite composer, or Bach, as some people do. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    WQED Pittsburgh and The Dominion Foundation Celebrate VITA's Twenty Years of Volunteers  Sep 19, 2008
    -A- Ad Hoc Committee Project Master Visual Afro-American Music Institute Artists Preserving the Legacy Allegheny Historical Preservation Society Alle-Kiski Music Day Camp Altoona Symphony Orchestra Arcadia Performing Arts Armstrong Concert Band Artists Co-Op Associated Artists of Butler Associated Artists of Pittsburgh -B- Bach Choir of Pittsburgh Blatent Image - Silver Eye Blazing Star Choral Society Bottleworks Ethnic Arts Center Butler Arts Council Butler County Symphony Orchestra Butler... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Annual arts preview gives glimpse of coming events  Sep 15, 2008
    March 17 Spanish Brass, featuring music from Bach to Duke Ellington, Henry Mancini to Fats Waller; 7:30 p.m., Rushmore Plaza Civic Center theater; part of the Rapid City Concert Association series. Series tickets are 60 for adults, 70 for adults with children, 130 for two adults with children and 25 for students; available at the civic center box office, the Dahl Arts Center, , or by calling 394-4111 or 394-4101. (Rapid City Journal, SD)

    Hanani to give recital at PS/21, talk in Ancram  Sep 6, 2008
    The concluding concerts at PS/21 will showcase "individual gifts and leanings," according to Hanani, with selections from Bach to country and jazz. Hanani compares the program to a good menu: it tops off "challenging, nourishing and meaty works" with "fluffy, virtuosic desserts." Tickets for the Friday performance at PS/21 are $10, with free admission for PS/21 members. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)

    Maximum minimalism  Sep 4, 2008
    Only Steve Reich, minimalism's J.S. Bach, is missing. But as Glass once put it, Reich limits himself to composing a masterpiece every few years. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    Feeling musical? Join the choruses  Aug 30, 2008
    The society's winter concerts will take place the first weekend in December and feature works from Mozart and Bach as well as an assortment of holiday carols. For information, call President Joe Stieglitz at 659-8345 or visit. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    Today in History  Aug 27, 2008
    Actress Barbara Bach is 61 ... Actress Barbara Bach. (Yahoo News)

    Maestro primed for a baton change  Aug 26, 2008
    The first Meet the Music concerts in March will be given by the male choir (aged eight to 18) of St Thomas's Church in Leipzig in music of two eminent Leipzig-based musicians, Bach and Mendelssohn. Andrew Ford's appearances as presenter of Meet the Music this year have been given a firm tick and he will be back next year. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    GWTW actor dies  Aug 25, 2008
    At times, he would entertain guests on his gold harmonica playing Dixie or bits of Bach. In 2007, he auctioned off Tarleton Oaks and his Gone With the Wind memorabilia. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    September's offerings  Aug 24, 2008
    Yellowjackets: Hot young playwright Itamar Moses, celebrated for his Stoppard-like brainy wit ("Bach at Leipzig"), returns to his hometown for the world premiere of a play about racial and class collisions at his alma mater, Berkeley High ... Liss Fain Dance: The balletic San Francisco choreographer, fresh from international touring, presents two world premieres (set to Messiaen and Bach) in her company's 12th annual home season ... UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, Bancroft Way at Telegraph... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

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    SummerFest takes flight on Messiaen's timeless notes  Aug 19, 2008
    Yet the passages also symbolized Messiaen's quest for the ineffable, a quest that links him to such composers as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler. As you listened to the Quartet, which evoked everything from birds and bells to rainbows and stars, the music was a lesson in cosmic consciousness. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Critic's picks - classical music  Aug 18, 2008
    The festival's summer season wraps up today with a program that surveys spiritually oriented music from three centuries, including works by Bach, Brahms, Arvo P rt, and Ralph Shapey. The concert ends with Osvaldo Golijov's Klezmer-inflected clarinet quintet, "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind." At 4 p.m., Peterborough Town House, N.H., 603-924-7610 or. (Boston Globe)

    Rioult leads troupe to SummerFest  Aug 18, 2008
    Not by chance, however, the Jacques Loussier Trio appeared at SummerFest, doing variations on Bach, last Friday. Such interweaving between programs reflects Music Society artistic director Christopher Beach's vision for SummerFest. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Look before you leap, Gustavo  Aug 17, 2008
    A decade older, his compatriot and fellow child prodigy Gabriela Montero has done just that, combining seasoned virtuosity with remarkable technique in a morning piano recital of Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann and Liszt ... Hearing Beethoven expertly played in the style of Bach is, after all, the kind of thing you come to Edinburgh for. (guardian.co.uk)

    SummerFest plays with the instruments of change  Aug 12, 2008
    They didn't only have a chance, they had a high-quality showcase, presented with artistry and an unwavering conviction worthy of classics by Bach, Beethoven or Brahms ... Improvisations on works by J.S. Bach, including the Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, and Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major; Loussier's Divertimento (world premiere). (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    At Tanglewood, a Weimar-era city of sin amid the Mozart  Aug 11, 2008
    Weill's score is a remarkable balancing act that melds the ancient and modern, the classical and the popular, from Bach to cabaret, from Mahler to the foxtrot. The unity of its disunity is extraordinary, and while many have braved Weill's path of high-low synthesis, his work set a standard that not even he could sustain. (Boston Globe)

    New releases  Aug 11, 2008
    EVOC's third album puts a twist on works by Wagner, Handel, Puccini, Mozart, and Bach. According to the band's website, 14 engineers took a year to record and mix the contributions from 65 musicians in 10 studios for the 11 tracks. (Boston Globe)

    * [CLASSICAL DVD REVIEWS]  Jul 30, 2008
    Seven composers X Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Puccini X are each the subject of a 59-minute film. Of the five Ive seen (Ive not yet found Tchaikovsky or Mahler), the most impressive are those dealing with Bach and Mozart ... On Bach (who also had to wait until the 20th century for a full appreciation), Rosen marvels at his gigantic achievement from his relative isolation in 18th-century Leipzig. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    It ain't so, Joe  Jul 24, 2008
    Forty years and 1500 concerts have rendered him not only sick and tired of sitting in concert halls alongside the old, affluent, uninformed or plain stupid (those who like their Mozart sweet and their Tchaikovsky loud) but the cumulative effect has filled him with hatred for any living composer who hasn't had enough time yet to acquire the Bach mystique or the Beethoven magic ... He might find himself just staying home in the end, listening to Bach. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Go For Baroque  Jul 24, 2008
    But the principal focus of the evening - as on so many Baroque programs - was the music of J.S. Bach, with a welcome cameo by his contemporary Handel ... So, for example, Bach's "Wedding Cantata" and the aria "sheep may safely graze" from Cantata 208 emerged with their contrapuntal textures and instrumental dialogue sounding particularly crisp, and Cooper's interesting arrangement of a Bach-Vivaldi concerto - which grafted Vivaldi's original accompaniment onto the harpsichord solo that Bach... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Carmel's Got Your Bach  Jul 20, 2008
    Carmel Bach Festival: 150 events. Article:Carmel Bach Festival: 150 events:/c/a/2008/07/18/PKG911ME56 ... DTL Article:Carmel Bach Festival: 150 events:/c/a/2008/07/18/PKG911ME56. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)

    Life, the universe and Kensington  Jul 18, 2008
    Handel's oratorio Belshazzar will allow him to experience the beauty of the baroque, and Bach Day (August 24), which includes the St John Passion, will introduce him to music's all-time champ. The classical period often gets short measure at the Proms: the music of palaces and salons does not translate well to the cavernous Albert Hall. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Yvette Assael-Lennon, musician at Auschwitz  Jul 18, 2008
    Her experiences have been depicted in at least one book and on screen in several cinematic and television productions, including "Playing for Time," Steven Spielberg's "Shoah," and HBO's "Bach in Auschwitz," which detailed the plight of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Clores said. Ms. Assael-Lennon became a candidate for extermination when the orchestra no longer needed an accordionist, Clores said. (Boston Globe)

    Composer Pays Hotchkiss Visit  Jul 18, 2008
    "I wanted to provide a point of reference for the young ones-a level of technical achievement that would stretch them while allowing the older ones to feel a level of satisfaction." She made Johann Sebastian Bach her reference point. She explained that Bach, known as the greatest contrapuntalist of his day, would accept challenges from patrons to create different "voices" around a central theme ... One such challenge was issued on a trip to Pottsdam, where his son, Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach, was... (Litchfield County Times, CT)

    More than Bach: Houston Symphony finding new ways to attract audiences  Jul 17, 2008
    Instead of Bach and Stravinsky, the musicians of the Houston Symphony are playing the music of technology, the music of now. Kind of like opera of the 21st century, if you will, Tommy Tallarico said. (KHOU.com, TX)

    The Air This Week  Jul 15, 2008
    Today 7 a.m. Composer of the Week: J.S. Bach (Mon. -Fri. (Boston Globe)

    Jupiter tenor van Kesteren dies  Jul 14, 2008
    Mr. van Kesteren performed the role of Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion more than 400 times worldwide, with leading conductors such as Eugen Jocum and Karl Richter ... "So many of his oratorio scores - he was a very well known for Evangelist in Bach passions - had the listings of every date and venue, the other soloists and conductor for each performance," Mims said. (The Palm Beach Post)

    Bach to improvising and all that jazz  Jul 13, 2008
    But some of history's best composers were great improvisers, among them Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Bach. "If you play a passage of Bach with your right hand and swing it, it's sometimes hard to ascertain if it's Bach or Charlie Parker," says Tedeschi ... au/news/music/bach-to-improvising-and-all-that-jazz/2008/07/08/1215282835559. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Joe Queenan: New classical music is torture  Jul 13, 2008
    It is not the composers' fault that they wrote uncompromising music that was a direct response to the violence and stupidity of the 20th century; but it is not my fault that I would rather listen to Bach. That's my way of responding to the violence and stupidity of the 20th century, and the 21st century as well. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Bridging the gap  Jul 13, 2008
    The musicians from Israel and Palestine (also Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere), first gathered for sessions in 1999 at Weimar, city of Bach, Goethe and Schiller - zenith of German culture - from where they also; made a pilgrimage to the nadir of German and human history, the nearby death camp at Buchenwald ... Mischievous little Ale, aged 10, spends all day there, offering plums from a plate while a Bach cello suite flows through a window and into the morning sun, until her violin lesson ... She... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    ABBA songs have staying power  Jul 13, 2008
    Of course, what makes ABBA songs catchy is to an extent what makes most music memorable, from Bach to the Beatles to the Bernie & Phyl's jingle. But, says Daniel Levitin, author of "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" and associate professor at McGill University, there are some individual factors. (Boston Globe)

    Senior Subjects: Tale of a babushka  Jul 13, 2008
    I particularly like to listen to and watch the videos of his discussions and performances of the Bach Cello Suites, recorded in the Abbey Church in the little French town of V. zelay. (Lincoln Journal, MA)

    Good Listening  Jul 7, 2008
    German violin virtuosa Anne-Sophie Mutter gets to explain why she's been belting out the Bach at a slightly different pitch than the purists might have expected. Tonight's episode ends with Chinese pianist Lang Lang performing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Erica Jeal plays her part in GSCE music  Jul 7, 2008
    Later, he had so honed my skills at harmonising Bach chorales that that section of the A-level held no fear for me. Mr Recknell's GCSE students are down the corridor preparing an ensemble, so we look at their course book. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Let's twist again  Jul 1, 2008
    His billowing, writhing designs have made Frank Gehry one of the most celebrated architects in the world. So why is Britain so scared of him. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    The Children's Bach  Jun 23, 2008
    The Children's Bach - Arts Reviews - Arts - Entertainment - theage ... Music assumes an integral role in this immaginatively staged production of Helen Garner's The Children's Bach ... Music assumes an integral role in Helen Garner's The Children's Bach. (The Age)

    Orchestra seeks new members  Jun 23, 2008
    The program featured pieces by Bach, Mozart and other classical composers ... () Medical Director of Critical Care rgency Services Graduate of an accredited RN program; Bachelor degree required; Masters degree preferred; Current SC RN license; Minimum 7 years healthcare. (The Augusta Chronicle)

    Lisa Spector has found the perfect piano pitch for calming that neurotic canine  Jun 23, 2008
    "I had attended a seminar on psychoacoustics - the study of sound and the human nervous system. I started applying that with the students at my music school, and there was this extreme effect in helping them. I wanted to see how effective this is with dogs, so sound researcher Joshua Leeds and I ran a research study throughout the country, directed by veterinary neurologist Susan Wagner. We recorded four hours of music and we applied the same principles that would be effective for calming... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    * Many a golden melody played on an old fiddle  Jun 22, 2008
    Ouyang Ling-yis J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (DytLj^) ... Huang Jia-lung (a) for Ouyang Ling-yis J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (DytLj^) ... Ouyang Ling-yi (Dy) for Ouyang Ling-yis J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (DytLj^). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Behind The Scenes Applause  Jun 21, 2008
    He holds a bachelor's degree in choral conducting from the University of North Dakota and a doctorate in musicology from Stanford University ... A: I credit Jimmy Schwabacher (the late patron of the San Francisco Opera) for my being here ... And when we met Jimmy at the Carmel Bach Festival, he told me that Bob Walker, who was then the business manager, was looking for an assistant. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Kip Cranna to receive honor from San Francisco Opera ... Gift of Sight coming to area: Lensecrafter’s program coming ... Park Board settles conflict with event scheduling, says farewell to Frykman ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="25px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Friday, June 20, 2008 Kip Cranna Kip Cranna to receive honor from San Francisco Opera  Jun 20, 2008
    Cranna is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Cranna, and holds a bachelor s degree in choral conducting from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, in musicology from Stanford, and has served as vocal adjudicator for numerous groups, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council ... For over 20 years he was program editor and lecturer for the Carmel Bach Festival. (Devils Lake Daily Journal, ND)

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