Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard) Marek. His plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...
Visitors at the biggest festivals will hear much of the same excellent music from the standard concert repertory that they heard during the winter at home. In Prades (June 7-20), the Casals Festival will offer Beethoven chamber music (top visiting artist: Rudolf Serkin). At Amsterdam, The Hague and Scheveninge (June 15-July 15), visiting conductors will lead the Concertgebouw, The Hague Residentie and BBC symphonies. At Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 22), Wagner's two grandsons will mount seven of the master's music dramas. Salzburg (July 25-Aug. 30), as usual, will specialize in Mozart, but will...
...There are works I used to like and can't hear any more. I literally don't hear them. The Beethoven symphonies, for example. After having heard them a few hundred times, it's as if I hear nothing but noise . . . Music is dying. The radio, that infernal machine, is helping to kill it. Always, always the same things . . . A composer needs contact with his listeners. Does he ever obtain it? No. They play Tchaikovsky . . . And still I'm one of the few composers who like music...
...balance his repertory by experience. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940 (at the age of 33), he already had 20 years of concert experience. He could spin out the Tchaikovsky Concerto with every Slavic sob intact, and he was the master, in lofty interpretations, of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos as well...
Having introduced his characters, Jarrell finds nothing much for them to do. The talk ranges from Holbein to Mondrian, from Balzac to Thomas Mann, and from Beethoven to Alban Berg. But about all that happens in the whole course of the novel is that an English teacher dies and the music teacher hires a secretary. Wound up like talking clocks on Page One. each of the characters finally runs down by Page...