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...Beethoven with Guitar Strings. In one camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...Mozart, Beethoven, and Bartok will feature the program of the Juilliard String Quartet at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night in Sanders Theater...
...vacant lot in Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
...Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Here, in Beethoven's last great quartet, is the kind of music that Pianist Artur Schnabel describes as "better than it can be played." The Paganini Quartet version is almost the equal of the old Budapest String Quartet performance; the recording is much better...
...Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 12 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Emanuel Bay, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). Heifetz and Bay make these early, Haydnish sonatas sparkle for all they are worth. Recording: good...