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...cultural cable services in the U.S., competing for a small if generally affluent audience of arts aficionados. CBS offered TV dramas featuring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter O'Toole; a Swan Lake starring Ballerina Natalia Makarova; modern dance choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven symphonies. Defining culture broadly, CBS also ran a probing nightly interview series, Signature, and a multi-episode look at modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from $25,000 to a hefty $325,000 an hour...
...Francisco, where he is composer in residence with the San Francisco Symphony. Adams' music represents less of a conscious break with the past than either Reich's or Glass's; instead of reducing his music to the bare bones, Adams draws inspiration from composers like Beethoven, Mahler, Sibelius and Stravinsky. His works have a lushness and emotional depth largely absent in the ascetic though fundamentally cheerful sounds of Reich or the giddy, explosive rhythms of Glass. The least "minimal" of the three, Adams has forged a big, strong, personal style, expressed in complex forms that employ...
...Beethoven also made the top of our charts here in Honolulu. A year ago, we asked our subscribers which composers they wanted to hear. The top five were Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Bach and Tchaikovsky. Hardly mentioned were Berlioz, Ives and Bruckner. When faced with our current economic realities, an orchestra must often make the safe choice. It is like ballet companies who have to do hundreds of performances of Nutcracker, driving dancers and musicians wacky, so that other, more inventive works may be underwritten...
...19th century liberal lives in a beautifully preserved row house in a cobblestone mews just off Washington Square. Geraniums blossom in the window boxes. Two gray-and-black cats frolic around the harpsichord. Near by stands the cello, on which Sennett has been practicing Beethoven's A-Major Sonata...
...more than a decade, Composer George Rochberg, 64, has been a point man in one of the bitterest musical skirmishes of the postwar era. With the appearance in 1972 of his Third String Quartet, a work at times frankly reminiscent of Beethoven and Mahler, Rochberg broke irrevocably from the dominant twelve-tone school of composition to write music that was more tuneful, more accessible and, in his opinion, more expressive. His apostasy puzzled and angered many of his colleagues, who felt that the tonal system used by the great classical and romantic composers was exhausted. "Why is George writing beautiful...