Word: beethoven
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...cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole. As he has pointed out, one does not stop Beethoven's Seventh in the Second Movement to inquire if the third oboe player has honorable intentions toward the second violins. Saroyan's fantasies do not investigate any of the more common phases of drama; he projects a pure simplicity and nobility of spirit and does it far better than most other dramatists today...
...Beethoven: "Emperor" Concerto (Rudolf Serkin, pianist, with New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia; 10 sides). This noble old warhorse, often recorded before, is freshly revealed in its full grandeur, thanks to a finely conceived performance, a finely balanced recording...
...another, a seven-piece orchestra attempted Beethoven's Eroica...
Audiences of the early days nocked to hear the Polish pianist Volovsky "play 400 notes in one measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
...excellent camera technique. The public liked his first picture (Tudor Rose), and Hollywood liked his second (Nine Days a Queen), offered him a contract. Says he: "There probably won't be a great movie made until the year 2000. Why? It took 1,800 years to produce a Beethoven, 1,600 years to produce a Rembrandt...