Bach cantata her company in staged productions, "The Peasant Cantata" and "The Coffee Cantata". In 1931 a recording was made of a performance of , in Barcelona. The number of performances and recordings increased in the decades after the Second World War. In the early 1950s Fritz Lehmann recorded several cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1953, Max Thurn conducted for the broadcaster NDR a series of Bach cantatas, with members of the NDR Chor and members of the NDR Sinfonieorchester. Karl Richter called his choir programmatically Münchener Bach-Chor in 1954 and recorded about a third of the
So Much for That positive about the novel, praising its language and writing, saying "What's really striking here is the way Shriver's juiced-up language and droll social commentary never flag once throughout this long and deliciously involved novel." Ron Charles of Washington Post Book World, concluded that " "So Much for That" is a furious objection to watching the dream of health, financial security and old-age companionship wither and die." "Telegraph" reviewer Lucy Daniel described the novel as successful critiquing the American health care system, writing " It’s a wonder that subject matter on the surface so bleak can be transformed into something so