Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...
...Beethoven was the greatest of all march composers. Most dangerous: the composer of the Horst Wessel song...
Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
While the bridal couple exchange wreaths, another girl recites a doleful lay: "Never has a nation struggled so bitterly. We die, we starve, we stand. . . . Straight ahead we look ... we do our bitter duty." Then rings are exchanged to the tune of Beethoven's I Love Thee. But there is no singing. Reason: "the words of the song are unsuitable...
...becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling scene in which soldiers drive civilians down a great flight of steps. in Odessa (Potemkiri) has also been tampered with -it is now a shambles instead of a few minutes of cinema as brilliantly organized as a movement in a Beethoven symphony...