The piece was the A flat Prelude from Book II of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," and the pianist was Frederic Chiu, opening his recital of Bach and Brahms at the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday evening.
On a recent afternoon, a group of break dancers was playing early Michael Jackson a few steps up from the toilets, while a few steps down, a crowd gathered for a stirring Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 2. It was a spontaneous mash-up with wonderful acoustics — a great show all around.
He was playing a prelude and fugue from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" by Bach, as he did every morning — he worked his way through a different prelude and fugue each day, as a kind of warmup exercise.
Ms. Tureck, though, was fascinated by his work, and at 14, when she began studying with Chiapusso, she made a point of memorizing a prelude and fugue from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" between lessons.
Rather he will use his own words to express regret, and concentrate on the model, law-abiding international citizen that Japan has been since.That might be enough for parts of South-East Asia, where Japanese wartime occupation was a prelude to independence from European colonial powers and where attitudes to Japan are relatively benign.
"The expulsion of the occupation from here is a prelude to its eviction from all Palestinian lands.
The State of Florida, for example, will soon offer its employees the closest thing to a 401(k) plan that any state government has come up with, and it could be a prelude to similar plans from other states.
While certainly not a prelude to a divorce from Microsoft—Intel has always tried to ensure that as much software as possible runs on its chips Red Hat is another straw in the wind suggesting that the interests of the "Wintel" partners are increasingly divergent.
Here the dozen or so dancers enter in a Prelude, to anonymous music from around 1700, the first pair dressed in Baroque costumes, their successors in elegant modern attire, and we start to see some connection between what we assume to be minuet steps and those of modern ballroom.
Where his conducting is mostly efficient – after a shambolic orchestral prelude from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and moments of untidiness elsewhere – and tactfully supportive of his singers, it does not have much warmth.
