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...with the finale, because while it is great intellect, great poetry if you like, it is not great drama in the sense that the first movement is. It tends to stagnate instead of sweeping impetuously ahead. Brahms fails, in this movement, to master the theme and variations form as Beethoven does in the finale of the Eroica. His variations fall apart; they never quite coalesce into dramatic inevitability...

Author: By Jones Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...30Crimson Concert Master: Handel: Organ Concerto and music of Hindemith and Beethoven. 8:45 Louis Roney '42, Tenor. 9:00 "Hot Off the Record." 9:30 Crimson Concert Hall: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. 10:30 Granville-Barker, Reading. 10:45 George A. Field 2G, Monologues. News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 2/11/1941 | See Source »

...music at the Germanic Museum the other night demonstrated this most beautifully, and there will be future concerts of the same type, which I shall try to mention in advance. Meanwhile, the Stradivarius Quartet has scheduled a program at the Germanic Museum for next Wednesday evening, consisting of the Beethoven Quartet Opus 131 in C Sharp minor, and the Schubert "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, two of the very greatest in the literature...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 2/6/1941 | See Source »

...believe that the movies are an art, not just entertainment, documentary films. are what symphony is to a music lover. To them, bluff, white-haired Robert Joseph Flaherty, who made the first documentary, Nanook of the North, 20 years ago, is almost the cinema equivalent of Composer Ludwig van Beethoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documentary Daddy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...students and 550 people from the town and countryside sat in the gym, ranged about the basketball court. In evening dress the Pro Arte men wound up a staircase from the dressing rooms, bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown's Euterpe Club) could easily have charged $1.50. Next day, Newsman Clarence Wetter said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings in Watertown | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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