Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor...
Thursday evening in Sanders, the first concert of the usual series given in Cambridge by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony; Haendel, Concerto Grosso in D-minor for Strings; de Falla, Suite from "E1 Amor Brujo," and Berlioz, "Roman Carnival" Overture...
...Symphony Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program comprises Haendel's Concerto Grosso for Strings, Ravel's orchestration of a Dance by Debussy, de Falla's Suite and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings, all the negroid music of the contemporary theatre and dance hall...
...life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression of passion and emotions. Beethoven's passion and emotions happened to be noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible for people of infinitely inferior mind and character to express...