Last winter when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals.
Last week, despite the...
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