Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such an album is the new recording of the Beethoven Fifth Symphony on Victor Records by Arturo Toscanini and the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra...
...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...
...musicians, seated at one end of the intimate little room, playing the music he loved. He felt clean and invigorated when he heard the Bach which seemed like precise and classically perfect exercises in counterpoint. He smiled an inane smile of satisfaction and pleasure as the rich beauty of Beethoven filled his entire body with a feeling of quietly sensual pleasure. And being so extremely comfortable, he mused in a slow and comfortable manner...
...concerts are scheduled for Cambridge this week. On Thursday the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play the following program at Sanders Theatre: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Mathis der Mahler of Hindemith, and Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger. The Stradivarius Quartet will play the following evening in Fogg Art Museum. Their program has not been announced...
...broadcast of U. S. music over WNYC, Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick played it. Though written for the most part in the measured, tinkling idiom of 18th-Century English salon music, The Battle of Trenton still preserved a smoldering crash and rumble reminiscent of the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig, but agreed that his music was well worth unearthing...