Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combined clubs will render Beethoven's ninth Symphony. Just prior to this number the Orchestra will play its arrangement of Beethoven's first symphony. This is the second time this season that the Glee Club will give the ninth symphony, having rendered it the first time at the Pension Fund Concert last November. The concert also marks the second time this year that the Harvard and Radcliffe Clubs have appeared together...
What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
...regard my own writing as French in form (Saint-Simon's 'Memories' and La Bruyere's Essays), German in sentiment (the music of Bach and Beethoven), and American in eagerness and energy...
...taught himself to play the piano. In music he prefers Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, Mozart most of all. He also plays the violin well. A concert is one of the few evening attractions that will entice him out of his flat below his study. He goes to bed early and rises early. Another lure is any opportunity to play his fiddle to the inmates of a Jewish home for the aged. Dr. Einstein is a conservative Jew, a Zionist and, politically, a Socialist. So is his wife, Frau Elsa Einstein...
...Beethoven", Professor Spalding, Music Building...