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...many, the 7 5-year-old festival is like old times: the same uncomfortable wicker seats, the same kind of program, as heavy and nourishing as Sauerbraten. The opener this week was Beethoven's hour-long choral Symphony No. 9,* be followed by Parsifal, Die Meistersinger and the four operas of the Ring cycle...
...honor of grandfather, the grandsons engaged Veteran Bayreuth Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to lead the soaring Beethoven choral symphony on opening night. The critics found the performance ragged and erratic-as if an orchestra fed on Wagner during six weeks of rehearsals could hardly keep its mind on Beethoven. Even so, the glossy first-night crowd gave the performance an ovation...
...Hendl. Hendl took a liking to one in particular. Said he: "It is typical Mendelssohn, with a strong overtone of early romanticism. The piano-writing compares favorably with Mendelssohn's G minor Piano Concerto [written at 22]. The orchestral portions, while not imbued with the personality of the Beethoven or Brahms accompaniments, are not as insignificant as Chopin...
...Physicists are "by nature politically radical." In music, they "show a strong preference for Bach [although] some experimental physicists will go so modern as to embrace Beethoven...
...walked over to the phone, picked it up, and with one mighty yank he pulled it, plaster and all, out of the wall. All this without saying a word. Then, completely relaxed again, at peace with the world, he sat down and we continued to play the Beethoven concerto...