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...finale, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, was most successful aurally. For Conductor Edo de Waart, 39, and his players, it was also the best interpretation of an understandably ragged evening. De Waart took time off to study cassettes of 35 of the programs he has conducted with the San Francisco. He was not happy. Says he: "The music sounded like a rehearsal. In preparation you listen and correct, but you must shut all that off in performance. Furtwängler and Walter made a lot of mistakes, but what does it matter? Precision is an illness of our time...
This Richard is not only fond of song but also of instrumental music. In one amusing scene, he insists on having a string quartet brought in to play the scherzo from Beethoven's Op. 131; we hear the music on tape, but the musicians use real bows to play on imaginary instruments. Elsewhere, Richard will not allow discourse to proceed until a keyboard piece has concluded, or until a trio of dancers has finished its ballet...
...long-distance call after another to his many friends, who range from a Who's Who of the concert world to Henry Kissinger, Dinah Shore, Arthur Miller and Jimmy Connors. Members of the Israel Philharmonic like to tease him about the three-minute orchestral introduction in the Beethoven Violin Concerto, which leaves Stern, as soloist, with nothing to do. The musicians say they cannot understand why he does not use the time to phone Moshe Dayan...
...consider the issue, and some experts believe only Congress can deal with it properly. U.C.L.A. Law Professor Melville Nimmer suggests patterning the right to share in the proceeds of posthumous exploitation after copyright law, with heirs entitled to royalties for 50 years, after which, for example, a bust of Beethoven would be in the public domain. But so far no one has been sufficiently exercised to propose any legislation on the issue. The constituency is, while notable, notably small...
Pianist-author Charles Rosen will be the 1980-81 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for his "The Classical Form: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," will give six Norton lectures and two recitals of Beethoven piano pieces next year...