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Cleveland dressed up to match new Severance Hall, built for the Orchestra and dedicated last winter (TIME, Feb. 16). Conductor Nikolai Sokolov indulged none of his predilections for new, unproven music. For him the occasion deserved Strauss, Franck, Beethoven, Brahms...
...there was a great wind that soughed in the eaves and pitched the rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first to the skies and became immortal...
Something of this triumphant attitude towards life exists in Beethoven's music. His complete mastery, his supreme domination of his late are ever present. And there is surpassing beauty, too. Once on a train a man spied the composer weeping. He shook him by the shoulder and asked if he could be of any assistance. Beethoven shook his head and replied, deaf as he was, "I was only thinking of my new symphony." Too frequently it is the public and not the composer who weep today...
...order that his occasional sallies into Symphony Hall will not cause the Vagabond to forget that there are other men besides Ravel and Pierne who write music, he will go today at 12 to the Music Building, where Professor Ballantine will play and explain Opus 2, Part 2 of Beethoven's Sonatas. There is no greater biography of Beethoven than his own music, no greater music than Beethoven...
...York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...