Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concentrating first on jive and popular music, Baruch and his men were soon swamped with telephone calls requesting the concert variety. The callers were most explicit, naming exactly what Beethoven they wanted, and by what performer. As soon as it could get its classical recording library built up, the network obliged. But the most famous request to date came from Lieut. General Mark Clark, who phoned to ask what was playing. Told that it was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he asked for some Hawaiian music. "Who's this calling, bud?" asked the announcer. "General Clark." said the General...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler: Overture "Fregal's Cave," Mendelssohn; Symphony No. VIII in F Major, Opus 93, Beethoven Symphonie Classique, Prokoviev...
...program, in order of presentation, is a follows: Schubert's Tragic Symphony, the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerts, Turkish March from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Kamarin Skaya by Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of Buffoons from the Snow Maiden...
Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...
...about 30 such towns, audiences of 200 to 1,000 will pay from $400 to $1,500 to hear the Budapest, confident that the great quartet music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert will be exquisitely interpreted. The Budapest four play with the warmest understanding of their scores, the subtlest of teamwork and an almost incredible matching of tone. Their splendid recorded performances for Victor and Columbia have recently sold to the lively tune of about 300,000 records a year...