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...revival also proved, to those who had never known it, that Robin Hood's composer, the late Henry Louis Reginald de Koven, was a good deal more than a convenient rhyme for Beethoven - he was one of the deftest and most ingratiating composers outside the heavyweight class...
Haggin begins with a hypothetical citizen who enjoys the language of Shakespeare but is baffled or bored by the sounds Beethoven makes. For years, music appreciation courses have tried to break down such resistance with anecdotes about the composers' lives, or a chase after the music's recurring themes (skipping most of the music in the process...
...symphonic composers, from Handel to Richard Strauss, have rated the contrabassoon highly, using it to fill in the substructures of massive harmonies. In compositions like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, it is even given short, snorting solos. These passages are practiced by contrabassoonists with all the loving devotion that violinists give to the most exquisite concertos...
...Century, has inspired some of the world's finest music. But many of the greatest musical Masses, for one reason or another, have been deemed by the Church unfit for liturgical use. The unapproved list includes Bach's famous B Minor Mass, the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, Masses by Haydn, Mozart and many other great composers...
Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...