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Music: The Bach Festival
Ascher, Charles S. | June 12, 1929 issue

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The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on May 10 and 11 gave its twenty-third festival under the direction of J. Fred Wolle. In the more than thirty years of its existence the choir has sung only Bach, and chiefly Bach's most complicated and massive choral works. It is still possible for the musical pilgrim to sense the community out of which this remarkable folk expression has burgeoned. Yearly, concrete viaducts, sulphurous blast- furnaces, and fifteen-story hotels complete down to coffee shoppes encroach upon it; but a turn around the corner brings one still to Moravian brethren's and sisters' houses.

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MUSIC festivals; PERFORMING arts festivals; WOLLE, J. Fred; SONG festivals; BETHLEHEM (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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