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...prefers a dinner of his favorite Pichelsteiner, a sort of Bavarian stew, after which he likes to sit in his black leather chair, looking at documents or playing cards with Luise. While he is reading, Erhard almost always has a stack of classical LPs on the record player: Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin. A fair pianist himself -he once hoped to become a conductor -he tolerates nothing modern. His watchword: ''Not one step beyond Strauss" (he means Richard, not Franz Josef). As he listens, he sips a long, cool Scotch and soda ("a habit I picked up from...
...with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...
...scutlptures at the Fogg range in style from the smooth, sinuous grace of "Torso of the Figure Called Fruit" to the chiselled strength of his archer "Heracles;" from the classical serenity of his "Head of the Figure Called Strength" to the expressionistic grimacing of his head of Beethoven. Rodin created individuals; Bourdelle, types. He idealized, modeling a Hercules who epitomized brute strength and a nude who was simply a series of smooth curves, more goddess than woman. His nude and his Hercules look totally different, but they reveal the same approach toward art, the same distillation of natural extremes...
...Beethoven & Me. Armed with a large income and an even larger reputation, Edwin Welte, the system's inventor, had no trouble inducing all the masters of the period to come to his Musiksaal and contribute to his "Welte Legacy...
Piano Treasures." He also recorded the likes of Ravel, Debussy and Mahler long before they had gained popular acceptance, tolerating Debussy's monumental ego ("There have been produced so far in this world two great musicians," Debussy once told him, "Beethoven and me."), encouraging timid players such as Edvard Grieg, whose embarrassment at the keyboard often reduced him to hopeless laughter. In the years before the vogue of the phonograph silenced his studios, Welte's legacy included performances by more than 100 pianists and composers...