Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday's opening program David Gross '60 will perform as the feature work the first movement from Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Opus 57, the Apassionata. Other words will be: Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor; Brahms, Intermezzo in E, Opus 118 # 2. Landon Young '58 of Adams House will perform Schumann's Symphonic Etudes on Tuesday, April...
Since he challenged all comers on any subject, Nadler has taken on five, lost only one game (he said that Beethoven's Fourth Symphony was in the key of B Flat Minor instead of B Flat*), and the show now has trouble persuading experts to risk their reputations against him. Nadler's opponents have generally surpassed him in schooling. He never went beyond the eighth grade at Mullanphy grammar school in St. Louis because he had to work to support his family. But he read hungrily, listened to radio music in his spare time, and found that "just...
...remainder of the program--Beethoven's First Leonore, Debussy's Danses Sacrees et Profanes, Brahms' First Symphony--was full of moments that made it difficult for a person with a taste for grotesque humor to keep from laughing aloud. The trouble lay primarily in three things--the terrible out-of-tuneness of the strings, the lifelessness of the playing, and the lack of intensity and precision in Attilio Poto's conducting. Each contributed to the others...
...many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered and nearly flawless. He clearly recognized the limits of the Mozart style and stayed within them. The only incongruities were the two cadenzas--fascinating but stylistically too advanced--which on later inquiry turned out to be by Beethoven. There were also from time to time some rough edges in the orchestra...
...workingmen, schoolboys, aged musicians filed through the gleaming foyer past the coffin lying in state under La Scala's crystal chandeliers. Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral. After Mass, Victor de Sabata, now principal conductor at La Scala, led the Cathedral and La Scala choirs in Verdi...