Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Shakespeare and Beethoven great...
...best recent one, the 1951 Puccini, by George R. Marek (which draws much of its material from previously unused letters). The reason perhaps is that Puccini's life seemed to sound a few simple themes, uncomplicated by the frailty of a Mozart or the herculean sufferings of a Beethoven. He looked less the popular image of an artist than of a successful banker, and he probably made more money from his music ($4,000,000 at the time of his death) than any serious composer before or since. He surrounded himself with yachts and expensive motorcars, maintained several estates...
...programs will include works by Bach, Copland, Beethoven, Schumann and Francaix, as well as the U.S. premiere of Mr. Lee's "Dialogues...
...Monday, July 7, the first of a series of concerts will be presented in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. The program will include chamber music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Mozart...
...couple of hundred "workers' delegates" looking forward to the free drinks. At a barked command comes the sound of marching feet and in tramp flag-bearing comrades (male and female) from the parachute group of the paramilitary "Association for Sports and Technology." The orchestra strikes up a Beethoven minuet, and through the lane of parachutists come the bride and groom...