Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky: "Our dominion, with our sound, is Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and the classics; at this we are good. Perhaps American orchestras can play some of the newer music better...
...instrumentalists making their way to the stage of St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium ranged in age from 13 to 60. Some of them were housewives, others were students, disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...
...attracted generation after generation of St. Louis families to its ranks, has sent alumni by the score into virtually every major U.S. orchestra. Its quality amazes visiting conductors, especially Europeans unaccustomed to amateur playing on such an ambitious scale. Last week's concert included, in addition to the Beethoven selection, Mozart's Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, the overture to Rossini's Barber of Seville. The orchestra negotiated all of them with every minim and crotchet in place," and with a typical air of lyric enthusiasm...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Berwald, Symphony no. 6 in E flat; Ives, Violin sonata no. 4; Beethoven, Mass in C major; Faure, Piano quartet in C minor, no. 1; A. Scarlatti, Sinfonia in D minor; Schubert, String quartet no. 13; Messaien, Oiseaux exotiques...
...EVENING CONCERT. Mozart, Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor; Prokoviev, Quintet, opus 39; Beethoven, Concerto no. 4 in G for piano, opus 58; Schubert, Sonata in B flat, opus post.; Handel, Concerto Grosso, opus...