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...Flat Stomach. When Bostonians heard Munch conduct their orchestra on his 1946 visit, his music had shocked some. It seemed more violent and more rushed, particularly in the allegro movements of Beethoven symphonies. But one man was not at all surprised when Munch was asked to succeed Koussy. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson had heard Munch conduct 15 years before in Paris and had prophesied that he would eventually lead the Boston. Why? Says Critic Thomson: "He was a natural Boston conductor, flat-stomached and grey-haired, and he created hysteria, particularly in the female over...
...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
Strauss was by no means happy with the way conductors handled Beethoven and his favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel...
...little Bonn, where Beethoven was born, the new German federal government which has barely begun to function is still trying to find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it had decided to live in retreat from the harsh realities outside. But Communist propaganda, radiating from the Reds' Eastern puppet state, reminds Bonn of reality...
...concert, which is open to the public, will include selections by Bach, Debussy, Ravel, and Beethoven...