Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presence of three of Beethoven's greatest works on one program is recommendation enough for a concert. When they are performed with as much care and sustained concentration as in last night's concert, the result is a very satisfying musical experience...
...there. But even crueller were passages in the second and last movement of the Symphony, which build to powerful, triumphant counter-rhythms that were simply diluted away. The majestic main theme of the finale never reached a logical fulfillment. The examples go on and on; always the inevitability of Beethoven's structure was underplayed or destroyed...
Lucy, in turn, is heartlessly rebuffed by Schroeder, a kindergarten longhair who dotes only on Beethoven and practices interminably on a toy piano. Sighs she: "I'll probably never get married." Other Peanuts regulars: thumb-sucking Linus, who battles grimly for the security of a tattered blanket; a mud-caked urchin called Pig-Pen ("A human soil bank," sniffs Violet); and Snoopy, a pooch of many talents, few of which are appreciated by his peers...
...criticism exclusively for years before he decided that words failed him. They simply created "unbearable divisions," he says, "between music critics and music lovers." His Mozart analysis was hailed by word-bound, cliche-tied British critics as "a most important departure." Keller is now working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that it might also spoil the market for the written criticism with...
...many farmers came from miles around to shake Max's hand. Says he: "A lot of them told me they had never heard music like this before." The combination of Max and FM proved so fertile that now, two years after the Rothmans began flooding the basin with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Saint-Saëns and other good music. FCC is letting him branch out with an AM radio station as well. And this week the station's 36 stockholders-mostly old friends-will meet with Max to hear a cheerful report: during December, its first month of both...