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Bach as in:  Johann Sebastian Bach


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  • The bomb squad was called again when Turtle ran after her partner through the lobby shouting "Mrs. BAUM-bach, Mrs. BAUM-bach!"†   (source)
  • She listened to all of them and finally picked something by Bach as her favorite, listening to it over and over.†   (source)
  • "The last time I saw you," observed the Count, "you were playing Bach at one of your grandmother's dinner parties."†   (source)
  • When she played a selection from Bach, I'd point to the correct composer, then once again touch the color blue on my board.†   (source)
  • Mozart, Bach, even the Italian Vivaldi.†   (source)
  • In the ballroom, he played the pipe organ, first a piece by Bach, then "I Got Rhythm."†   (source)
  • Baz's playing got more and more passionate, and there was ragtime and honky-tonk, and then Mr. Lisbon whispered in his ear, and Baz began playing Bach funeral music, sitting stiff and waxy and doing his best to look like a cadaver.†   (source)
  • Bach.†   (source)
  • Scholars, including Robert Bach, former INS executive associate commissioner for policy, planning, and programs, estimated that about 33,600 children are not caught.†   (source)
  • The Bach suite and the Shostakovich had both flown out of me like never before, like my fingers were just an extension of the strings and bow.†   (source)
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  • Above the shouts and constant susurration of the surf rose the unmistakable notes of a Bach flute sonata.†   (source)
  • Monday night, February 15 Bach in San Fran I keep hoping that someone special will come into my life soon.†   (source)
  • I was never going bach home.†   (source)
  • Well, neither do I. The closest I came to classical music in my youthwas Procol Harum ripping off a Bach cantata for "A Whiter Shade of Pale."†   (source)
  • Nathaniel is playing Bach's Cello Suite No. I: Prelude, and eventually picks up the bow to give that a go.†   (source)
  • People called out requests—popular songs, selections from Bach chorales, hymns—and soon the whole room was joining in the choruses.†   (source)
  • Today even Bartok would have made her sleepy, and it wasn't Bartok on the little phonograph, it was Bach.†   (source)
  • Beethoven was in a sense a 'free' artist—unlike the Baroque masters such as Bach and Handel, who composed their works to the glory of God, mostly in strict musical forms.†   (source)
  • ...SCIENTISTS GROW IMMORTAL CHICKEN HEART ...DEATH PERHAPS NOT INEVITABLE Scientists said Carrel's chicken-heart cells were one of the most important advances of the century, and that cell culture would uncover the secrets behind everything from eating and sex to "the music of Bach, the poems of Milton, [and] the genius of Michelangelo."†   (source)
  • The young college dropout was hunched over his instrument table, body limp, eyes closed, face locked into the same neutral expression he wore when listening to one of the many Bach tapes on his expensive personal cassette player.†   (source)
  • Or, as Steiner paraphrases Emmon Bach: These deep structures eventually lead to the actual patterning of the cortex with its immensely ramifIed yet, at the same time, 'programmed' network of electrochemical and neurophysiological channels.†   (source)
  • I was even more amazed when I learned that she played violin in the Yale Symphony and Bach Society— not a position for just anybody who could play an instrument.†   (source)
  • He restarts the CD player and flexes his right hand in time to Bach.†   (source)
  • Then he began to whistle a tune which sounded like a free improvisation on Bach.†   (source)
  • Bach's "Gloria" chorus sounded on Matron's ancient phonograph.†   (source)
  • A second later, with his chest unpuffed and the manager already escorting the mottled army man out, he joins Chiniqua near Bach and tries to regain the ease of a few minutes ago, talking about wanting to buy R. Kelly's album 12-play-a misguided conversational selection, he immediately realizes, because it's filled with explicit lyrics and sexual asides.†   (source)
  • His favorite composer was Handel, but he adored also the music of Bach and in 1764 had taken tremendous delight in hearing the boy Mozart perform on the organ.†   (source)
  • "I already told you they were performing Bach," he said, shooting a longing glance at the door.†   (source)
  • My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline's school friends.†   (source)
  • John Peterson was already at the piano, filling the warm evening air with the soft music of Bach.†   (source)
  • Her feelings came out only in the music, the beautiful Bach sonata.†   (source)
  • But in my other life, I am a pianist, bringing to life, with my own hands, the genius of Bach, Mozart, and Chopin.†   (source)
  • An Alanis CD, the Lilith Fair CD, Bach, and Rent CDs.†   (source)
  • Jennings that, contrary to popular belief, Bach was not more prolific than Telemann; he's just better remembered.†   (source)
  • Bach, Chopin, Ravel.†   (source)
  • A string quartet, penguinesque in their tuxedoes and correct as finger bowls, played Mozart and Bach in the living room.†   (source)
  • It was flaggingly familiar, something from Bach I should have been able to name as from a child's first music book, but which I had unaccountably forgotten.†   (source)
  • There was everything here that he needed to maintain himself for the rest of his life, but what he wanted most was an electronic piano and certain Bach transcriptions.†   (source)
  • I get Keith Emerson better than I get Bach.†   (source)
  • I guess I am still playing Bach at dinner parties.†   (source)
  • After a while I played a Bach Prelude on the Steinway, buttoned up the ship, and rose into space.†   (source)
  • Her records, Grieg, Handel, the Beatles, Art Garfunkel, Bach, Liszt, thrown everywhere.†   (source)
  • I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto.†   (source)
  • "Bach Bourree in C major," says Nathaniel.†   (source)
  • Jones was a skinny kid who listened to Bach.†   (source)
  • But when the organist touched the keys, we scarcely noticed—and when he played Bach, not at all.†   (source)
  • So much more subdued than the Bach,' she says in a snooty voice.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to try to play Bach's sonata number one," she quietly announced.†   (source)
  • I sat down to play a few Bach Two-Part Inventions.†   (source)
  • I'd smile and play my Bach or Mozart or whatever overused pieces of music they asked me to play.†   (source)
  • Her only LP—Bach—played in the background on the small gramophone I had bought for her.†   (source)
  • A Bach piano piece flows at moderate volume from a compact CD player on his desk.†   (source)
  • "But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach, the 'Gloria' ....," I said under my breath.†   (source)
  • I heard the faint strains of something of Bach.†   (source)
  • If she loves Bach, then she must love Telemann.†   (source)
  • Rusty scales and triads led to first attempts at "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" that eventually gave way to basic etudes until I was playing Bach suites.†   (source)
  • He sometimes does this, lying on his back, and keeps at it until he falls asleep in the middle of something beautiful, perhaps the Bach Prelude No.†   (source)
  • Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fine-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites.†   (source)
  • You sacrificed a Bach for this?†   (source)
  • No. They play Bach and Beethoven, Rossini and Puccini, while at Carnegie Hall the audience responds to Horowitz's performance of Tchaikovsky with thunderous applause.†   (source)
  • Any Bach.†   (source)
  • I had to play five pieces: a Shostakovich concerto, two Bach suites, all Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, which was next to impossible, and a movement from Ennio Morricone's The Mission, a fun but risky choice because Yo-Yo Ma had covered this and everyone would compare.†   (source)
  • It's still clear, even to an amateur like me, that he's missing notes, mixing passages from the Bach cello suites with riffs of his own and struggling with pitch.†   (source)
  • This time Nathaniel played the first three movements of the Bach Sonata No. Excellent bow control for expressive playing, possibly a larger dynamic spectrum on f side would be desirable.†   (source)
  • He doesn't limit himself to trumpet music, declaring that he's never going to give up the cello or violin, so he needs this Dvorak, that Beethoven, this Bach and that Brahms.†   (source)
  • He says he thinks he could "really start progressing much better" if I could get him a copy of the Bach Cello Suites, a music stand and a new A string for the cello.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel plays Bach and Beethoven as if he's a young student again, the music filled with a sense of urgency and possibility Every few minutes he turns toward the dresser, checking in with his mother and his muse.†   (source)
  • "Bach and Brahms," says one.†   (source)
  • University Circle, named for the turnaround of the Euclid Avenue trolley from downtown, was home to Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the jewel of the neighborhood—Severance Hall The Georgian-style home of the Cleveland Orchestra—financed by John Long Severance, the son of John D. Rockefeller's treasurer—was hailed as an architectural triumph and had hosted its first concert in 1931, with conductor Nikolai Sokoloff leading a program that included Bach's Passacaglia and Brahms's First Symphony.†   (source)
  • If he's not trying to figure out the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites, he's drawing on the pavement with a rock, writing the name of whatever piece he's playing, the name of the composer, Peter Snyder, Adam Crane, Governor Schwarzenegger, the names of me and everyone in my family or whatever else pops into his head.†   (source)
  • After the applause dies down, the people around me stand up, they talk about the concert, about the beauty of the Bach, the mournfulness of the Elgar, the risk—that paid off—of throwing in the contemporary John Cage piece.†   (source)
  • The Bach B-minor mass.†   (source)
  • I'd already recorded it once, along with a Chopin etude and a Bach prelude and fugue, but I wasn't happy with the sonata and wanted to record it again.†   (source)
  • But with cello, she would be honest about the fact that she remembered a Bach suite she'd been working on a few months ago but not a simple etude she'd learned as a child; although once Professor Christie, who came down once a week to work with her, showed it to her, she'd pick it right up.†   (source)
  • No, not Bach's 'Gloria.'†   (source)
  • But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with his beloved Bach.†   (source)
  • When by chance Sophie came to live in the same building as Wanda and Jozef, it had been Bach and Buxtehude, Mozart and Rameau who had glued together their friendship.†   (source)
  • Not only that, not only unbreakable but compressed—made so that you can play an entire symphony, say, or a whole Bach cantata on one side of a single record.†   (source)
  • Kind of distant and sad, you know, like the trumpets in one of the suites for orchestra of Bach, that make me think always of very ancient times, and how mysterious is this thing of time.†   (source)
  • Yet she was able to do this, with a choking sensation that wilted her with pleasure, while at the same time the Bach chimes, freighted with the noise of death and time, shivered down her spine.†   (source)
  • And I was a grown woman and I wanted to play Bach, and at that moment I just thought I must die—I mean, to die not so much for what he was making me do but because I had no way of saying no. No way of saying—oh, you know, Stingo—Tuck you, Papa.'†   (source)
  • —or to the great Bach festivals, or to hear Lotte Lehmann, Kleiber, Gieseking, Furtwangler, Backhaus, Fischer, Kempff ...His voice seems to be an amorous melodic murmur, cajoling, politely but outrageously flirtatious, irresistible and (to her utter distress now) wickedly exciting.†   (source)
  • She says that she would love to go to Germany again, to see Bach's grave in Leipzig—and she halts, embarrassed, wondering why on earth she has said this, although indeed to place flowers on Bach's grave has long been a secret wish.†   (source)
  • Mama and Papa and Casimir and Zosia—Zosia, that is the, you know, nickname for Sophie—all living so happy in the big house, eating Wiener Gulash Suppe and studying and learning and listening to Bach—oh, forever.†   (source)
  • When I was a little girl in this house, this ancient house, I would lie awake at night in my bed and listen to my mother play downstairs on the piano—Schumann or Chopin she would play, or Beethoven or Scarlatti or Bach, she was a wonderful pianist—I would lie awake and hear the music faint and beautiful rising up through the house and I would feel so warm and comfortable and secure.†   (source)
  • The Welsh tell, for instance, of a hero, Gwion Bach, who found himself in the Land Under Waves.†   (source)
  • "Thou speakest truth," said Caridwen, "it was Gwion Bach who robbed me."†   (source)
  • I had heard the magnificent voice of a Bach singer with whom, in the old days when we were friends, I had enjoyed many a memorable musical occasion.†   (source)
  • In Sandusky it had been his delight to spend evening after evening with his German choir-master, training the young people to sing Bach oratorios.†   (source)
  • Her playing, as indeed her whole behavior, was exquisitely formal, and her choice lay always among the more patterned compositions—those of Bach, Corelli, Scarlatti, and occasionally Mozart.†   (source)
  • It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrassing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at Leon and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado.†   (source)
  • FIGURE 46: Caridwen in the Shape of a Greyhound Pursuing Gwion Bach in the Shape of a Hare (lithograph, Britain, A.D. 1877).†   (source)
  • Though I carried the complete works of Bach and Haydn in my head and could say the cleverest things about them, not a soul would be the better for it.†   (source)
  • After the Handel came a little symphony by Friedemann Bach, and I saw with surprise how after a few bars my stranger began to smile and abandon himself to the music.†   (source)
  • Compared with Bach and Mozart and real music it was, naturally, a miserable affair; but so was all our art, all our thought, all our makeshift culture in comparison with real culture.†   (source)
  • So she wrapped him in a leathern bag, and cast him into the sea to the mercy of God, on the twenty-ninth day of April.2 The talc of Gwion Bach comes to us through "Taliesin" in The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh romances translated by Lady Charlotte Guest in four volumes between 1838 and 1849.†   (source)
  • And one day, towards the end of the year, as Caridwen was culling plants and making incantations, it chanced that three drops of the charmed liquor flew out of the cauldron and fell upon the finger of Gwion Bach.†   (source)
  • Beneath the lofty Gothic of the church whose netted vaulting swayed with a ghostly life in the play of the sparse lights, I heard pieces by Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Bach and Haydn.†   (source)
  • And she put our hero, Gwion Bach, to stir the cauldron, and a blind man named Morda to keep the fire kindled beneath it, and she charged them that they should not suffer it to cease boiling for the space of a year and a day.†   (source)
  • As I reflected, passages of Mozart's Cassations, of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier came to my mind and it seemed to me that all through this music there was the radiance of this cool starry brightness and the quivering of this clearness of ether.†   (source)
  • Gwion Bach, who, having tasted three drops from the poison kettle of inspiration, was eaten by the hag Caridwen, reborn as an infant, and committed to the sea, was found next morning in a fish trap by a hapless and sorely disappointed young man named Elphin, son of the wealthy landholder Gwyddno, whose horses had been killed by the flood of the burst kettle's poison.†   (source)
  • Gosh, your kitchen is clean; makes an old bach feel sloppy.†   (source)
  • Say, you better come in and get warm, and see what an old bach's shack is like.†   (source)
  • Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.†   (source)
  • One was a fantasia, King Lear; the other was a quartette dedicated to the memory of Bach.†   (source)
  • he felt only too certain that with the money which she had, or could easily procure, she would be able, all the same, to take a house at Bayreuth, since she wished to do so, she who was incapable of distinguishing between Bach and Clapisson.†   (source)
  • She said she loved Bach.†   (source)
  • Bach died from 1750 to the present.†   (source)
  • He discovered that Duer had enthusiasm for two composers, called Bach and Beethoven, presumably Germans, and that he himself did not yet comprehend all the ways of the world.†   (source)
  • I'm an old bach.†   (source)
  • Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.†   (source)
  • Thus, /Bloch/ was changed to /Block/ or /Black/, /Ochs/ to [Pg275] /Oakes/, /Hock/ to /Hoke/, /Fischbach/ to /Fishback/, /Albrecht/ to /Albert/ or /Albright/, and /Steinweg/ to /Steinway/, and the /Grundwort/, /bach/, was almost universally changed to /baugh/, as in /Brumbaugh/.†   (source)
  • This Phoebus, that was flower of bach'lery,
    As well in freedom* as in chivalry, *generosity
    For his disport, in sign eke of victory
    Of Python, so as telleth us the story,
    Was wont to bearen in his hand a bow.†   (source)
  • This royal marquis, richely array'd,
    Lordes and ladies in his company,
    The which unto the feaste were pray'd,
    And of his retinue the bach'lery,
    With many a sound of sundry melody,
    Unto the village, of the which I told,
    In this array the right way did they hold.†   (source)
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