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Article: Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt plays Bach's music her own way.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2005
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Byline: Timothy Mangan
A page of music by Johann Sebastian Bach is something of a blank slate for the performer _ or a cipher, perhaps. Like other composers of his era, Bach (1685-1750) left much more up to the discretion and creativity of the performer than do his modern counterparts.
Bach supplied the raw material for a performance _ the notes on the page, the rhythms _ but little else. Tempos, phrasing, articulation, dynamics and expression were largely the province of the performer. Bach even allowed plenty of room for improvisation. It's as if his music, as he wrote it, was a basic recipe for a performance: "Here are the main ingredients," he says, ...
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... ... approximately 150 years since the days when J.S. Bach was dismissed as a boring composer working ... two local groups will perform concerts of Bach's music. A performance at 8:15 at ... 939 Hinman, Evanston, will kick off Bach Week, Evanston's 14th annual Bach bash ...
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