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Music dramatized the mood of hope. For hours, as tension and expectations rose, Radio Free Prague played over and over Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose stirring strains once served to rally Czechoslovakia's wartime resistance movement against the Germans. Then, in midafternoon, one of the leaders finally spoke. It was President Ludvik Svoboda, and when he finished, Radio Free Prague played a dirge...
Today, the conductor is a sort of curator, and he hangs up these equivalents of masterpieces by Rembrandt, only they're by Beethoven. And he tries to light them as well as possible and put them next to the right other picture, and that's called programming. The whole idea of the concert hall grew up with the idea of the symphony. It began in the 18th century and finished with the beginning of the 20th century: from Mozart to Mahler, roughly. The symphonic form is dead, finished. But why despair about it? Just accept it. That tremendous...
...Peter Fonda piece. I felt I just had to-Peter has his own vocabulary, his own way of saying things. Unfortunately, all of the really great people to interview are dead-Hitler, that would be a great interview. And oh, let's see. Lizzie Borden. Marie Antoinette. Beethoven. Rimbaud. Robespierre...
...Summer School and have found it wholly one-sided and to a good degree mistaken. "Racism" is a very strong word and one should think twice before using it. Certainly, playing "psychedelic music" rather than "soul music" at mixers is a poor example of Racism. I myself prefer Beethoven, but I am hesitant on that account to think of mixers as "Anti-intellectualism at Harvard Summer School...
...birthday festivities in Bonn's Beethoven Hall, former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard recalled his crucial 1948 decision to close West Germany's banks and deal no more in grotesquely inflated reichsmarks (1,000 for a carton of U.S. cigarettes). As economic boss of occupied West Germany, Erhard courageously exchanged only 6½ Deutsche marks for every 100 of the old marks, thus wiping out the cash savings of most of his countrymen for the second time in a generation.* A laissez-faire economist, Erhard followed currency reform by abolishing price controls and rationing. "The only chance I had," said...