Word: beethovens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...
Selections from Bach, Beethoven, Palestrina, Cimaroa, Morley, Delaney, and Szostakowicz will be included in the program. Choral and orchestral numbers will precede the feature pieces in which both groups will perform together. The performance is open to the public...
...whom only a lordly few wore evening dress, played standing up (except for the cellists). The most presentable of the professors acted as ushers, wore white gloves, carried long white wands. The main piece on the program was the "Grand Symphony in C Minor"-the Fifth by Herr van Beethoven, who had been dead for 15 years. That was in 1842, in the Apollo Rooms, on lower Broadway...
Last week the audience, biggest and flashiest in a decade, sat in the middling comfortable seats of flag-draped Carnegie Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
Each year, the Glee Club gives one big work in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to aid the Pension Fund for Retired Musicians. Under Serge Koussevitsky's direction, they gave Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" last year and Bach's "Mass in B minor" the year before. All members of the club join in this concert, though only about 60 go on each of the other concerts and--tours...