Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 6 p.m., CBS). All-Beethoven program...
...five most boring "acknowledged masterpieces" on records. Readers responded with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, 10) Tchaikovsky's Symphony...
...classics. At the Embers, he slips in something by Chopin or Falla with such an unassuming air that it never seems out of place. He began to learn the classics when he was three. His father, himself a professional pianist, would sit beside him at the keyboard, playing a Beethoven sonata, one hand at a time, while little Alex's fingers followed an octave away. Perhaps because of his blindness, "I always improvised and made up little pieces." so when he began to listen to records of Erroll Garner. Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum, he was ready for jazz...
...tall, loose-jointed man with heavily calloused hands. Driving his tractor at his farm outside Brattleboro, he could pass for a Vermont farmer. But on the concert stage, he ranks as one of the best pianists in the world. Last week Rudolf Serkin was onstage in Carnegie Hall, playing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and showing a capacity audience the top of his form...
...drama in this case is provided by suggesting that Miller's efforts to get a good combo together were really rather like Beethoven's early struggles. The problem of the actor is solved with a beautiful piece of sustained mimicry by Jimmy Stewart. A subtle makeup job has slightly altered his mouth without causing it to seem unlike Jimmy Stewart's. With that for a start, Actor Stewart has managed all along the line-in walk, talk and conducting-to effect a graceful compromise of gesture that should please both Miller's public...