Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Music by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn. Soloist-Mischa Elman...
...concentrator, in individual composers or periods. There are none. Furthermore, during the last two years the range of such courses offered by the department has narrowed considerably. Such regularly given and quite popular courses as "The Symphony from Haydn to Piston" and "The String Quartets of Beethoven" are no longer available and apparently no step has been taken to give others in their place...
...Garbo and Aly Khan were not on hand, but they took comfort from the presence of Secretary of State Dulles, Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Conductor Bruno Walter, .Industrialists Henry Ford II and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Above all. the city which can name no less than 28 houses in which Beethoven lived, gloried in the opening-night work: Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which had had its premiere exactly 150 years before-in occupied Vienna (at that time the occupying armies were Napoleon...
...first appearance with the orchestra, Szigeti will play Beethoven's Violin Concerto in E. The remainder of the program will include Cimaroso's "Overture to the Secret Marriage...
...furthermore, phrenology took on a democratic tinge. Everyone had a head, and everyone with the aid of a little chart could understand what was going on in it. It was optimistic-the "good" organs, by exercise, would increase in size. Two men with heads as massive as Beethoven's took the whole thing over. They were Lorenzo N. ("salesman extraordinary") and Orson S. ("impresario and high priest") Fowler. The brothers graduated phrenologists from their institute, published a Phrenological Journal (last issue, 1911), and had a bigger collection of skulls than a Sepik River tribe...