Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the program that I want to write you: the Beethoven Fourth, Berlioz' "Royal Runt and Storm," and the Brahms First. Mr. Munch, this choice is surely a failure either of nerve or of imagination. Indeed, the guests have been fed beef and potatoes with a touch of cola slaw on the side. For this nourishing fare we must be grateful. Yet surely one can design a more stimulating musical diet: something earlier than Beethoven, something later than Brahms. Perhaps you are as weary of playing items of standard repertory as I am of hearing them at so many concerts...
...Beethoven: "Emperor" Concerto (Vladimir Horowitz; RCA Victor Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). The glossy techniques of pianist and conductor make this an almost flawless performance, but the craggy spirit of the music is somehow missing...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Egmont and Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
...lecturer concluded his talk by pointing to five dilapidated chairs lined up on the stage. According to MacKinnon four of these chairs were occupied by Demosthenes. Milton, Beethoven, and Franklin Roosevelt--the fifth could be ours if we would give in and take the $96 course. Then he introduced thirteen recent Dale Carnagie Graduates, fit company for the great men of history. Each grad delivered a two minute speech on what the course had done...
Holmes retired as conductor of the orchestra in 1950 after serving 25 years in that position. He will return only for the one program tonight in place of the regular conductor, Russell Stanger. The sight-reading will include passages from Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony...