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ACH: WORKS WITH FLUTE
he title "Cantatas in Context" took on new meaning on Wednesday night when the Orchestra of St. Luke's gave its first concert of the season, free, as a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks. The preceding week had created a stirring context for the music of Bach.The title was originally meant to convey that the music was being presented in a church rather than a concert hall. In fact, the context of the first Bach performances was probably more austere than the ornate altarpieces and shining gold at the St. Vincent Ferrer Church on the Upper East Side. But these days, a little extra ornament isn't going to hurt anyone's feelings.The context was also the liturgical calendar, integral to Bach's conception of his works. The four cantatas in the program — "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft" (BWV 50), "Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg" (BWV 149), "Herr Gott, dich Loben alle wir" (BWV 130) and "Es erhub sich ein Streit" (BWV 19) — were all composed for the autumnal Feast of St. Michael, whose victory over Satan is depicted in the Book of Revelations. Dramaturgically, the program was all too topical, moving from BWV 149 ("We sing a victory with joy") to the rather ominous, bellicose BWV 19 ("There arose a war").
erhaps it speaks to a time newly immersed in grief, introspection and foreboding. How else to explain the astounding popularity of "Morimur," a new recording of Bach at his most austere, seemingly obsessed with death?
new malicious computer virus named Goner began making the rounds of the online world yesterday like an Internet IQ test. Anyone who has not learned the most important computer security message of the last two years — do not open any unexpected files that come attached to e-mail messages — ends up infecting the computer.Once installed, the Goner program — technically known as a worm — looks for and deletes a number of programs, including Internet security programs like ZoneAlarm. If the victim uses the Microsoft (
endy Hilton, a specialist in Baroque dance, died on Sept. 21 at her home in Manhattan. She was 71.
RE there any frontiers left for what used to be called the early-music movement? As it swept the field in Monteverdi, Bach and the like in the 1960's and 70's, the movement became closely identified with period instruments. In recent decades, period bands, playing in what is now called historically informed style, have been expanding their terrain to include Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and even later composers.
