Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, the new $500,000 stage was not finished. Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots. The new amplification system had eliminated the echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about in the past-but it had replaced them with some equally awesome squeaks and yowls. When the program ended, the crowd gave the musicians (mostly New York Philharmonic-Symphony men) a big hand, listened politely and impatiently while Concert Co-Chairmen Mayor William O'Dwyer and Sam Lewisohn said...
...pays more heed to the old world than to the new: more Titians than Trumbulls hang in its marbled halls. Musically, almost the reverse has been true since a tall, dark-haired young (34) conductor named Richard Bales took over the free gallery concerts six years ago. Bach and Beethoven are heard -but so are dozens of aspiring U.S. composers who seldom, if ever, get a hearing in Constitution or Carnegie halls...
...unbeatable. He writes about Judd gray, the co-murderer, with Ruth Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw, has written of music with such vitality...
...Stars Look Down. When Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749, German music was already entering its day of unparalleled glory (Bach, Handel and Haydn were living, Mozart and Beethoven were soon to come); by comparison, German poetry and drama were blank pages. "Had I been born an Englishman," Goethe once confessed, "and had all those numerous masterpieces (of Shakespeare's) been brought before me ... they would have overpowered me, and I should not have known what...
Berlin likes General Education, but hopes it will never have a faculty of its own. He respects the graduate school system and thinks that more should be done in England in that direction. Lastly he praises Harvard's "universal passion for music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven everywhere--wonderful." But Isaiah Berlin is going back to let the hostesses of London tear each other part over him and teach philosophy at Oxford...