Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musicians the world over are designing their programs this season to commemorate the centennial of Beethoven's death.* Singers deep-voiced and shrill-voiced are dedicating their classical opening group to his songs, to arias from his Fidelio. Violinists and pianists are featuring his concertos and sonatas; painstakingly, reverently, string quartets are whispering his tenderest secrets, his hopes, his sentiments. Last week in Cincinnati Fritz Reiner opened the symphony season there with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series...
...presence of so much natural beauty in the world, in the sky, in the fields, in the flaming radiance of a sunset makes an aesthetic man thoughtful. Beethoven called a sunset "Nature's praise to God.' The spectacle of an artist's life is almost as remarkable as a sunset and just as divinely inspired...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...
...Detroit's Orchestra Hall, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the first concert of its 13th season before a friendly, congenial audience that radiated enthusiasm over the orchestra, the program and Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work...
...over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice," brilliant, biting; Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony," great feat of the afternoon, magnificently played...