Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of the late Edward MacDowell and a pupil of the late Henry Hadley, Barrymore took up the piano at the age of 17. In his Hollywood home he has one of the most magnificent record collections in the movie colony. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel and Anton Bruckner. He is a not-too-expert performer on the oboe. About In Memoriam last week he was characteristically unassuming: "If the great masters were listening . . . I'm sure they'd be gentlemen enough to consider the intent of my music rather than the execution...
With extreme pleasure I was reading your article concerning Anton Bruckner (March 27). On the other side, Bruckner is considered as Beethoven's only equal in the symphonic field. Born in Vienna and a musician myself (in civilian life, of course), I fought for Anton Bruckner all my life and I was surprised to find, when I came to this country, that almost nobody had ever heard of him. In Austria and Germany Bruckner's name appeared on concert programs as often as Beethoven's and is familiar to everyone who appreciates good music. Bruno Walter made...
Mozart's "Symphony in D Major" and Beethoven's "Concerto No. 1 in C Major" were the featured selections of a highly satisfactory concert presented by the combined Harvard Radcliffe Wellesley Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre last Sunday evening. Bruce Simonds, Dean of the School of Music of Yale University, was soloist in the Beethoven concerto...
That Mr. Simonds not only is a remarkably able pianist but also possesses a thorough knowledge of Beethoven's Concerto was evidenced by the facility and technique of his performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...
Simons will be soloist in the performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. In addition, George Brown will conduct the combined orchestras in Mozart's Symphony Number 35 (the Haffner Symphony) and in works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin...