Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rossini," Beethoven said to his young Italian visitor in the spring of 1822, "you are the composer of The Bar ber of Seville. It delights me. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists." As usual, Beethoven was exactly right. Although Gioacchino Rossini dashed off 38 operas before his retirement at the age of 37, he was long known as essentially a one-opera composer. Many of his lively overtures are concert hall staples, but the musical dramas they introduce were generally considered too florid for modern ears and too demanding for contemporary voices...
...Gleam is a stately, classical sinfonietta that can be read-rather like a simplified musical score-from top to bottom. It opens with a four-note theme of palest yellows made of three narrow stripes and followed by a wider one-much like the "V for Victory" opening of Beethoven's Fifth. However, Noland's sprightlier pastorale modulates into a green andante, followed by an adagio of cornsilk white, a reprise of mint, and a coda built around a bland band of airy, spring-sky blue...
...nine so far. Many of the jottings went into seven books he printed for friends at his own expense and into his new Doubleday collection. For example, "There are no empty Tabasco Sauce bottles." Or: "I think it would have been nice to have shared a room with Beethoven and when someone remarked, upon hearing one of his compositions, 'Isn't that great!' I could say, 'Yep, my roommate wrote...
...financial worries have been so remarkably short-lived that they are reducing their outside teaching commitments. This year, the quartet will give about 100 concerts (at $1,200 each), compared with a mere dozen in 1965. Its recording work is also increasing, in anticipation of next year's Beethoven bicentennial; the Guarneri will by then have recorded all 16 of his quartets for RCA Victor...
...beautiful, and you grow more beautiful after each drink. He speakers idealistically. He worries about particulars. Did you get your car fixed? How in your mother? Then you go back to the office. You copy and type, type and copy. You go home at five. Your listen to Beethoven. Does he really listen to Beethoven...