Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of Beethoven, Heifetz, and Charles Munch made the B.S.O.'s concert Saturday night one of its greatest triumphs. The three familiar works on the program received brilliant interpretations which brought out some of the hidden beauties usually overlooked in run-of-the-mill performances...
...Munch began the concert with Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Possessing neither the grandeur of the Seventh Symphony nor the sublimity of the Ninth, it has a boisterous spontaneity all its own. The orchestra, after a shaky start, played with gusto and precision, and Munch captured all the Viennese high-spirits which this piece requires...
...Beethoven's "Waldstein" and "Appassionata" Sonatas are two of those pieces which every pianist plays, but few can play well. Paul Knudson '53, tried them both last night, with only moderate success...
Both of these popular works were written during the composer's so-called Middle Period, at about the same time as the Third and Fourth Symphonies. One of the major characteristics of the "middle Beethoven" is lyricism, and this is the very quality Knudson lacked...
...Pierian Sodality will hold an open sight reading session in Sanders Theatre at 7:15 p.m. tonight to which all amateur musicians are invited. Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will conduct Mendelsohn's He brides Overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Handel's Water Music...