Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jadan stood confidently before the piano on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall to sing his first recital in eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates to bravos and tears...
...Birthday Beethoven. When the war was over, Firkusny began to come into his own. Last year he played in 50 U.S. cities; Carnegie Hall audiences heard him play five times within a month, with three major orchestras: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. Even the Times had decided that slender Rudolf Firkusny was "now an interpretive artist in his own right...
...nothing to hide: his technique was clean; his style, unlike that of many another Mozart player, was neither cold, coy nor kittenish. At week's end, on his 38th birthday, he showed an audience in Hunter College's recital hall his fluency and force in other styles: Beethoven, Debussy, Czech Composer Jan Dussek, Stravinsky, and the poetic Schumann's C Major Fantasia, which he has made his own (and recorded for Columbia-TIME...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Conductor-Pianist Leonard Bernstein playing Beethoven's First Piano Concerto...
...covers more or less the same ground much more completely, although with considerably less sparkle. Also at 10, Music 1 convenes in Paine Hall. A full course, Music cannot be entered now, but lectures and especially the listening hours are ideal for auditors. This term's work begins with Beethoven and runs through to the moderns. The listening hours, in Paine Hall Auditorium, are as follows: Monday at 9, Tuesday at 3, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11, Friday 4, and Saturday...