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...across recently a notice advertising a jazzed-up version of Beethoven's Fifth symphony,--"Beethoven's liveliest symphony, with victory emphasized throughout"--and was inclined to consider this more a flattery than otherwise. That the jazz boys need this increasing recourse to the hoary classics at all is a sad commentary on something or other, but by their choice they usually distinguish whatever symphonic music they intend to massacre as having unusual structural or melodic strength, and the Fifth is no exception. respect for the marvelous clarity and controlled exuberance of this symphony has out ridden many interpretative storms from...
...must re-educate the Germans," Masaryk said, "so that they will realize that Beethoven is better than the goose-step," after we have proven to ourselves and them that our way of life is the better. The Reich must be disarmed completely, and "MacArthur will live in Potsdam, with his wife, going for walks in the Tiergarten with...
...works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program, the Beethoven Ninth or "Choral" symphony, which is religious in feeling even though it uses Schiller's "Ode to Joy" as a text, and the Bach "Magnificat...
...anything in praise of the Ninth would be impossible without dragging out our hackneyed friend, the Hollywood adjective. Beethoven, already deaf but still in his prime, planned this symphony on a scale that transcends in power and breadth of conception anything written in this form before or since, but yet cast it all in good sonata form. He might be said to have transcended mere structure to have given structure its highest significance. As a matter of fact, when faced with the originality of the ideas in the Ninth and the splendor of their execution, discussions of "form" tend...
Some reactionaries, no doubt the same ones who are against opera in English or Goodman playing Mozart, don't like the choral movement merely because it is choral, and therefore not "pure" music. In this particular movement, however, Beethoven used his chorus symphonically, thus keeping the musical design intact, and making good use of the vibrant sonority of the human voice which remains the most basically expressive of all musical instruments...