Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orderly election (there were watchers from all four parties at the polls and Allied Kommandatura control teams cruised through the city), the Social Democratic Party managed to get more than twice as many votes as SED. Even the Sedists' desperate last minute campaign stunts, including a performance of Beethoven's Ninth, fireworks and free potatoes, were in vain. The results...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). All-Beethoven program, including the Eroica symphony; Frank Black conducting...
Last week in Manhattan, 56-year-old Dame Myra Hess, greatest of all contemporary women pianists, played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...
...Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major; Polish Pianist Maryla Jonas, soloist; Artur Rodzinski, conducting...