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Hanfy played the piano to soothe Hitler (Wagner and Beethoven were the leader's favorites) and his son Egon who later attended Harvard would wrestle...
...PROBLEMS of imbalance were troublesome in Ravel, they were considerably more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite...
...even among themselves, and the brass added imprecise timing to their list of sins. However, the conductor is meant to notice and correct such imperfections of balance and ensemble; thus, with him the responsibility must rest. It is extremely unfortunate that potentially first-rate performances of the Ravel and Beethoven works were spoiled by Lurye's carelessness regarding fundamentals. The persistent inattention to these elementary problems placed a severe strain on the patience of the listener and nullified a number of outstanding individual performances by the talented members of the Bach Society...
...existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven. He cared about his three children, happily pitching in and cutting toenails...
Stewart Kagan '80, head of classical programming, echoes Falk in defending the originality of selections played on the station. "We avoid playing the classical 'warhorses' of WCRB--the popular classical music station." Beethoven's Fifth, Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" and Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" all qualify as warhorses, says Kagan...