Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried last week at a state funeral attended by 200,000 angry West Berliners. An honor guard of 250 riot squadders snapped to attention as Bauer's cortege rolled into the square in front of West Berlin City Hall; massed bands played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica; Mayor Ernst Reuter delivered the oration: "Never do we want to fall victim to the system to which Herbert Bauer fell victim ... If mankind can't help us, we will lift up our hands and cry 'Oh Lord, make us free.' " When it was all over...
...structure. Listeners heard more details than they believed possible, played in tones of pastel shading. Then the pianist flashed through Schoenberg's tortuous Suite, Op. 25 and surprised even hardened modern music lovers: its improbable burblings came through almost as easily as a Viennese waltz. After that came Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 110 and, for a dazzling change of pace, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. When it was over, the audience demanded four encores...
...Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Benno Moiseiwitsch; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Victor). One of the new, low-priced "Bluebird Classics," Victor's answer to the increasingly successful cut-rate labels. There are no program notes, but the performance is excellent, and there is little sacrifice in the quality of recorded sound...
...sure that many students will agree that the weekday afternoons are the most sensible and satisfactory tome for the entertainment of women guests. This is the time when beau and belle can study together. Listen to Beethoven play cards sit by the five and relax to no one's detriment. Cutting out permissions from 1 to 4 seems to show vengeful spite on the part of the faculty and a cowardly betrayal on the part of the Student Council...
...B.S.O. management tells them to try the week-night open rehearsals. But these are mere paste-and-scissors concerts which always subordinate the satisfaction of the audience to the preparation of the music for the weekend main event. And even if the orchestra is in the middle of a Beethoven crescendo, union rules make the musicians stop the music at ten o'clock and walk out on their audience...