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Harvard’s self-proclaimed “premier chamber orchestra” takes the stage for yet another night of tranquilizing classical music. The program will feature pieces by Beethoven, Cooman, Ravel, Rossini. $8 Regular, $6 Students. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...because of his age," Sandor says, insisting that advancing years alone don't end a career. He says a relaxed way of playing can minimize the physical demands placed on muscles. But Sandor hasn't given up on musical fireworks and flash. His programs include everything from dark, difficult Beethoven sonatas (like Opus 111) to dazzling Schumann fantasies...
MacGregor quotes a 1942 letter to the Times of London, which asks, “Because London’s face is scarred and bruised these days, we need more than ever to see beautiful things…Music lovers are not denied their Beethoven, but picture lovers are denied their Rembrandts just at a time when such beauty is most potent for good. I know the risk, but I believe it would be worth it.” Soon the trustees agreed, and brought out Titian’s Noli Me Tangere, rushing it downstairs for each bomb alert...
...takes Bart and Zabladowski on a tour of his dungeons, where various musicians are being tortured. "The lovely rumbling sound you hear" BOOM! BOOM! - "is one of my favorite prisoners. He was a bass drummer in an orchestra I once conducted. Do you know the part in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony where the drummer is supposed to go 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom'? Well, this stupid lout always went 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom. Boom.' One extra boom. He'll be here forever." He approaches a cell with a man striking a huge drum, and Zabladowski asks, "You mean...
...grandest project yet, the one that will cement--or ruin--your international reputation. And you hope and pray no one notices your work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise in Los Angeles in October...