Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It was the climactic moment of a current London Beethoven cycle, and once he began to conduct, he was hardly recognizable as the same man who had painfully shuffled toward the center of the stage...
Besides barking up a flock of man-sights-dog stories, Muttnik pointed the press to such offbeaters as the U.P.'s breathless account of an Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...
Budapest String Quartet: Almost as unlikely as Wyatt Earp at Carnegie Hall, but much more welcome, the famed chamber-music ensemble made its debut on TV last week in an hour's recital of pieces by such rare television tunesmiths as Beethoven. Debussy and César Franck. Manhattan's WCBS and Metropolitan Educational Television Association deserved the hosannas they got for putting on a rare treat. They also fell into a pitfall of TV culture worship. It occurred to no one to point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started...
...child had been making more than $75,000 a year for three years when she heard her father say in an unguarded moment; "There is only one thing in this world that counts and that is money, and I teach Ruth to play Beethoven because it brings in the dollars." She was old enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father...
...excellent interpretation of the Beethoven Op. 101 sonata, the gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...