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...first number was Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and the quartet that played it -- Marsha Hinch, Myrna Paulis, Darlene Ferris and Mary Stokes -- played it without a hitch. There was no metronome in evidence, but you could get the count by watching their chins and brows. Next Marsha and Myrna played Greensleeves. Then Mary Rathman, a seriously accomplished pianist and mother of eight children, played a Debussy prelude and two Chopin etudes. Her hands flew. Lois Crabtree and Chris McClue played a rhapsody, Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul. Charlie Hinch had a rough start on The Oak Grove...
Worries about a vanishing repertory are more legitimate. The LP catalog has found a place for both the most familiar Beethoven symphonies and the most obscure baroque fugues. For now, classical and pop CDs run to the best-known artists and material. Yet some major classical labels, including RCA, CBS and the giant PolyGram complex (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and London), have begun issuing their huge catalogs of conventionally recorded...
...symposia, intended to "introduce people to state of the art thinking at Harvard and in general," will teach poets about dentistry and dentists about poetry, as well as anything else they might want to learn about, from Odysseus to OPEC, from biology to Beethoven, 350th organizers said...
...face had a cartoon-like directness: big mustache, Magic Marker eyebrows, oversize cigar. Yet few TV entertainers were a more intriguing set of contradictions than Ernie Kovacs. A boisterous cutup who relished tacky props and low-down slapstick, yet a closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David...
Kovacs loved music and used it wonderfully, from his catchy ragtime theme song to such precursors of music videos as a "dance" of office furniture to Sentimental Journey or a poker game played to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Perhaps his most famous creation was the Nairobi Trio, a pantomime band of musicians in ape costumes, derbies and overcoats who mechanically plunked out a nonsensical tune like figures on a music box. The laboriously articulated joke came when one ape bopped another on the head at crucial points in the tune. The humor was too bizarre to explain...