Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Beethoven...
...enthusiastic (after their fashion) throughout the festival. They listened with intense and breathless concentration to the gradual development of embryo themes into tall, symmetrical skyscrapers of tone. When we add to this the fact that, in "popular" outdoor concerts this Summer, the concertos of Bach, the overtures of Beethoven and the symphonies of Brahms were among the best liked numbers, we can find ample refutation of the contentions of those deadheads who complain that U. S. Jazzmania is undermining the respect always due to the great triumvirate-"the three B's" of music...
...greatest of the past are being written today. I will present, in Boston, music never heard before, music which exists only in manuscripts which I have in my keeping, music written by men now living who will rank as high a century from now as Mozart or Beethoven!" No enemy to Jazz is Koussevitzky. It is stated of him that in London one night, stopping at a supper-club for a bite, he heard some young Americans rendering their native melodies. He listened; his bite grew cold. "I like good music," said...
...listens to a piece of music, one listens to a period of history, and if the background is anachronistic, one hears nothing. With scrupulous regard, he presents the works of the old masters as he believes they would wish them presented. Now he is looking for the American Beethoven...
Woolworth will pay a rental of $400,000 a year for the first 21 years. A graduated rental scale has been arranged for the second and last periods. These three periods have doubtless been fixed to correspond to Beethoven's famous "three periods," out of respect for the composer's shade, which undoubtedly haunts the hall. The rent for the entire 63 years will amount to the neat little sum of $27,500,000. In addition, the tenant has agreed to pay taxes, insurance and running expenses...