Word: beethoven
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...flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...
...doorman was right. Manhattan concertgoers, to whom child prodigies were no novelty, were wild about Ervin Laszlo. His flashing performance of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy might have made any of his elders envious. Second-chair critics, who attend dozens of recitals a year and stoically put up with a lot of willing but perfunctory performers, found themselves using first-chair words of praise. "One searches his memory in vain," wrote the New York Times's Noel Straus, "for another so richly endowed with all of the factors that make for extraordinary and completely satisfying piano playing...
...call off the second one. It was too hot under those lights, he complained. Howls of dismay from disappointed televiewers (and NBC's promise to turn up the studio cooling system) changed the old maestro's mind. At concert time, he appeared with no vest, breezed through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for a fitting finish to his tenth season with...
...Beethoven & Refreshments. The Concertgebouw has not always enjoyed stability. It was born privately, like most small-town U.S. orchestras-except that Amsterdam's music-loving burghers built a hall to hear visitors like Brahms and Liszt before they built an orchestra...
...their first concert, the founding fathers rounded up 120 players and 500 singers to give Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. At first the Amsterdam audience was difficult. They came to concerts, but at any hour they pleased, and bringing refreshments. Conductor Willem Kes taught them manners by marching from the podium in mid-concert with the entire orchestra at his heels...