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...whole thing works out into rather a miracle," Elliot Forbes '41 said yesterday of the Beethoven string quartet Op. 131 Gesturing at the class during the last lecture of his 26-year Harvard career, he went on. "In a fugue, it isn't so much drama as eloquence. It's a kind of adventure...
Afterwards, Forbes said, "They were spellbound" by the music. He spoke about what he termed his "three loves": Beethoven the edited Thayer's Life of Beethoven, published in 1964), choral music, and harmony and counterpoint. He said he enjoyed teaching because it "combines my love of music with a love of people...
Forbes, who is retiring as Peabody Professor of Music this year, gave his final lecture in Music 12th, "The Works of Ludwig van Beethoven "Forbes, the music department's head tutor, also taught Music 2 this year...
Oppens played a mixed program of pieces by Beethoven. Schumann and Liszt before a Sanders Theater audience last night. She also performed the Boston premiere of "Blue Bambuola," a work written especially for her by contemporary composer Charles Wuorinen...
...seats of the Majlis, or national parliament. Already the mullahs are so sure of their control that they have, here and there, relaxed their stranglehold over cultural life. The local radio station that plays a weekly program called The Lies of the Foreign Radio Stations now features Beethoven symphonies too, and the numbingly familiar TV diet of propaganda and prayers is relieved on occasion by plays about Iranian historical heroes. Though even foreign women must don head scarves and can expect anxious nudges from security guards if a single wisp of hair falls into view, some Iranian women have begun...