Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed string section started to play-or rather, to sing. In Mozart's short Symphony No. 23, written when he was 17, the orchestra brought out a remarkable feeling of adolescent sentimentality-the oboe solo in the andante section positively swooned-as well as hints of emotional deeps. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, about as nearly threadbare as a Beethoven work can be, had its nap teaseled attractively. But the evening's piece de resistance was Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner...
...audience sat rapt and bewitched. Not a feathered toque or a velvet pillbox moved in Boston's Symphony Hall. There was something vastly appealing about the frail, hunched woman as she bent over the keyboard; her playing of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 was filled with a rare kind of fire, poetry and sadness. Bucharest-born Pianist Clara Haskil, 61, was making her first U.S. appearance in 30 years, with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. When she finished, the hall reverberated to stamping feet and shouts of "Bravo!"' She was called back an un precedented...
Boston critics were as ecstatic as the audience. The Herald's Rudolph Elie called it "one of those magical revelations that occurs in music once in a generation . . . the most beautiful performance of Beethoven's Third Concerto I ever heard or expect to hear again...
...generally unexciting program at Symphony Hall this week: well-travelled Walter Piston's 5th Symphony; Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, Schumann's 4th Symphony, and part of a Beethoven Quartet played by the strings. Today at 8:30 p.m. Michael Rabin, violinist, will make his Boston debut tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., in Symphony Hall. His program includes Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Prokofiev's Sonata, and Briten's Waltz...
...musical gourmet, the film may at times be irritating. When Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is translated into a delightful mythological Bacchanalia, the music is lost. And when the Nutcracker Suite lends background music for a series of abstract and animated dances, the naturally light music is often rearranged into a rather insipid effervescence...