Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as Koussevitzky's had. Says he: "I have no use for those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...
Schnabel has toured the United States and Europe for the past few years, giving concerts of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart, in particular...
...program includes three movements from Haydn's London Symphony, Beethoven's Leanore Overture No. 3, Rondo from Mozart's Bassoon Concerto (Ted Schultz, bassoonist), and Berlioz' Marche Hongroise from the Damnation of Faust...
When Koussy appeared on the podium, looking fresh but a little frail-he will be 75 in July-the jampacked audience came to its feet. For his final concert, Koussy had planned an all-Beethoven program, including the Ninth Symphony, which he remarked "was Beethoven's last also." Through Beethoven's First, emotion ran high, but it was the mighty flood of the Ninth, played with love and understanding, that broke...
...Beethoven in Ballparks. Last week, with his orchestra midway through its fourth annual tour, Conductor Swalin was proud of his boast that "in North Carolina, the word 'symphony' is no longer something to be afraid of." Minneapolis-born and Vienna-trained, Ben Swalin had had his big idea for a traveling symphony while teaching music appreciation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There was hardly a city in the state that was large enough to support a regular symphony. Swalin decided that if people couldn't come to the music, then the music should...