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...Beethoven's Egmont Overture. An hors d'oeuvre. Nobody's digestion was ever spoiled by it and no latecomer has ever lost much by missing...
...order of considering Picasso merely a Spanish painter, or Joyce a parochial Irish Catholic writer. The best British composers speak an international language-inflected, to be sure, by characteristic clipped accents and at times marked by a stiff-upper-lip emotional restraint-as surely as do the German Beethoven, the Italian Verdi, the Frenchman Debussy or the Russian Tchaikovsky: men who transcended the boundaries of their birth and made fellow countrymen out of the world's citizens...
...despite the popularity of a few pieces, British music has never been a vital part of the orchestral scene. One reason: music directors of U.S. orchestras tend to be European born and steeped in the Continental tradition that calls for plenty of the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies as a musical diet for all seasons. Another is that American orchestras, when they venture beyond the classics, feel an obligation to home-grown composers. Further, they may be predisposed against British music on account of its sometimes folkish nature, a trait that does not hinder appreciation of Bartok or Stravinsky, both...
Boston Philharmonic--Benjamin Zander, conductor; Andrew Rangell, soloist; music of Gluck, Beethoven and Stravinsky; Jordan Hall...
Piano Recital--Wanda Paik, pianist; music of Beethoven Mozart, Cuopin and Prokofiev; Naumburg Room, Fogg Art Museum...