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...villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories," as the children call them, are intended, says Marx, to "immunize them against fear." Like the first shift before them, the boys are also being treated to Idella's digests of the classics, bedtime concerts of Brahms, Beethoven, etc. piped into their rooms, French lessons and word-building...
Speck of Humanity. The overflow crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall burst into applause when Violinist Oistrakh stepped from the wings. Then he and his longtime accompanist, Vladimir Yampolsky, began Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 12, No. 1. The whole first movement went by, muddled by Carnegie's overrated acoustics -or because of a debutant's jitters-before Oistrakh began to project the full voltage of his enormous musicianship...
Sincerely Yours (Warner) introduces Wladziu Valentino Liberace to the moviegoing public in the role of Ludwig van Beethoven. Before the cameras began to turn, however, somebody began to have doubts. Was not Beethoven, after all, a somewhat limited personality? He was not nearly so famous in his time as Liberace is today, and besides he was a careless dresser. Liberace decided to "insist that all the different facets of my personality ... be included in the picture." As a result, the Beethoven story seems to have been combined with the plot of a well-known melodrama, The Man Who Played...
...doctors call it otosclerosis, and tell him that the only chance to restore his hearing is a "dangerous" operation called fenestration. Liberace asks for time "to think it over," and while the sound track booms a medley from Beethoven's Fifth...
...completely different approaches to violin playing characterized yesterday's concert at Aams House. The first was that of Harvard's Edward Filmanowicz, who played sonatas by Beethoven and Faure with superb piano accompaniment by Robert Freeman. Filmanowicz was fiery and exciting, and brought out all the dramatic aspects of the music. His tone was somewhat ascetic at times, but his sense of pace and climax brought the music to life...