Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clarence Brandenburg was shown on television in Ku Klux Klan regalia, haranguing his cronies. "The nigger should be returned to Africa, the Jew returned to Israel," said Brandenburg. "If our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it's possible that there might have to be some revengence [sic] taken." Convicted of violating Ohio's criminal-syndicalism law by "advocating violence as a means to accomplish social reform," Brandenburg appealed to the state's highest court, but his plea was rejected on the grounds that "no substantial constitutional question exists...
...other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary because his many intimate, complex compositions generally sound better in the home than in a large concert hall. In 1949, there were 15 Bach albums on the market; today there are more than 500-including 24 rival versions of the complete Brandenburg Concertos, and 12 interpretations of the B-Minor Mass. Says Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, founder of the International Bach Society for specialized study of the composer: "The great fire under all of this is the direct meaning that Bach has for us as contemporary persons. He is a phenomenon...
...records, A Whiter Shade of Pale, by England's Procol Harum, was arranged around an organ theme inspired by Bach's organ setting of the chorale Wachetauf. Beatle George Harrison admits that the soaring trumpet obbligato in Penny Lane was inspired by the Second Brandenburg Concerto. Three of the five members of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble are Juilliard products who double on oboe, organ and cello in order to alternate, and sometimes combine, Bach's structure with rock's fluidity...
...defection so angered Duke Wilhelm that Bach was clapped in the Weimar jail for a month. Once he arrived at Cothen, Bach devoted five placid, productive years to superb keyboard and chamber pieces, including the French Suites for harpsichord, the unaccompanied music for cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from his secular music for sacred occasions, just as Martin Luther had used love songs and barrack ballads for some of his chorales...
...running Opel's new truck factory in Brandenburg, largest in Europe. Though he turned out 3,000 to 4,000 trucks a month for the wartime German army, he refused to join the Nazi Party. Even so, U.S. occupiers after V-E day decided that he had risen too high as an executive under Hitler, and effectively canceled his career-until the British invited him to Wolfsburg...