Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unleashes all his powers of satire as he incorporates Debussy-like ragtime, fragments of Protestant hymns, and purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four, the "Thoreau" movement is the kindest to its namesake. Its big surprise is the sudden addition of a lyrical, low-register, and entirely unseen flute. Monday night...
...best instrumentalists belonged as a matter of course and were envied for their positions. HRO concerts were keenly anticipated musical events, and the orchestra matched expectations with uniformly impressive programs. In a single concert, they might have played Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Beethoven's Seventh. All Sanders was rapt, and one distinctly felt that something important was happening...
There isn't much that a small African country can do nowadays to call attention to its cultural sophistication, but almost any attempt deserves applause. This month the Republic of Togo is issuing a series of postage stamps bearing the likenesses of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and a composer named Edward Kennedy Ellington. It is all very flattering to the Duke, but it would be a mistake for the people of Togo-or anywhere else-to think that this honor stamps him as a classic of the past. If anything, the Duke, at 67, is writing more jazz and writing...
...that the composer of Time Cycle and Echoi has not suddenly stopped writing masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony ("The death agonies of an eviscerated serpent"). ANDREW STILLER Madison...
Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...