Word: adieux
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...Ninth Symphony, written in 1909, is ultimately about farewell, as the work makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that the BSO?...
...Fond adieux to Paul A. Cantor...
...CLIBURN: BEETHOVEN "LES ADIEUX" SONATA; MOZART SONATA IN C (RCA Victor). Cliburn's delivery of Beethoven's sonata of cheerful goodbyes and of Mozart's sonata of precise jollity is deft, fey and spacious, but Beethoven and Mozart have been known to reveal greater depths under more scholarly hands...
...Thomas Babe, a senior, is currently making his adieux to the Harvard stage by directing a production of Measure for Measure, and also playing in it under an assumed name. In the latter role he is unobjectionable, if uninspired; in the former, he has been led by his obviously extensive acquaintance with the more prominent modern critics of the play to create an awkward intermission in the middle of Act III, Scene 1. Mr. Babe is not, however, without his own reading of the play: he finds it a crashing bore. Now this is probably a novel interpretation...
...ADIEUX (244 pp.) -François-Regis Basflde -Simon & Schuster...