Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
Bach's Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...
...fourth generation of Busches is on the way-two small Singhers, four small Serkins. The most musical of them is Johnny Serkin, three, born on Beethoven's birthday, and already learning to draw the bow across his violin. Says Mrs. Adolf: "Nobody is anxious to hurry him. We hate child prodigies...
...unfortunate that such a chamber music group as the Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...
...various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose a 13-year-old Chicago high-school freshman with braces on her teeth, whom he had heard play Tschaikovsky and Beethoven in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel...