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...Manhattan, the Beethoven Association* gave a concert. Sedate and grave was the music heard, the august, the decorous, the lovely works of the great masters of yesterday-Schubert, Schumann, Haydn. One departure from classicism was made-the rendering of Chausson's Chanson Perpétuelle by Mme. Stanley, supported by a stringed quartet. "Very bad," said Critic Deems Taylor of this departure. But for the works august, sedate, all critics had praise. The chamber music of Haydn was the pièce de résistance. Next to the master, Beethoven, the darling of those who attend the Society...
...German music is fat and heavy-weight," says Mr. Ernest Newman, distinguished music critic of the London Sunday Times, now visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
...purpose of the Pierian Sodality to bring before the American public at least a small part of what is good in contemporary music. Already several manuscripts have been used successfully, but the established classics, especially those of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shubert, and Beethoven, remain dominant in the repertoire of the Sodality...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the regular concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program: Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Beethoven's Overture to "Egmont"; Arensky's Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, and Mozart's Symphony in G major...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall a concert of piano music by Josef Hofmann, flawless technician and thorough artist. He will play a Beethoven Sonata (Opus 111) and selections from Schumann and Chopin...