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...Last week the bullrings and soccer stadiums were packed, as were the tapas bars of old Madrid. Late-hour diners filled restaurants, feasting on steaming plates of garlic chicken and stuffed squid swimming in its own black ink. Long queues formed outside cinemas featuring The Towering Inferno, and a Beethoven concert series played to sellout houses. Traffic blocked the capital's streets and tourists swarmed through hotel lobbies. "The only people who are nervous are those across the Pyrenees, those who are abroad," said a government official in Madrid. "We aren't nervous." Not yet, anyway...
...only in recent years have many conservatories trained women as composers. "Think of the thousands and thousands of men who have studied composing," says Pianist-Conductor Bo ris Goldovsky, "to produce only about three dozen masters. Statistically, wom en may simply have to catch up before they have their Beethoven." There are signs they soon may be getting their chance. In June Manhattan's Juilliard School for the first time awarded a doctorate in composition to a woman. Bi centennial money and International Women's Year have resulted in more commissions for female composers...
Works of Rossini, Carter, and Beethoven; Music from Marlboro; Longy School at One Follen...
...Beethoven's Spring Sonata, a Chopin Ballade, and other works for piano and/or violin; Lynn Chang, violin and Richard Kogan, piano; Cabot Hall Living Room at South House...
...orchestral serenades and the Haydn Variations, Brahms was middle-aged before he published his first symphonies. The reason for his hesitation is clear: "I shall never compose a symphony! You have no idea how hard it is for our kind to hear the tramp of a giant like [Beethoven] behind us." But Brahms finally mustered his courage, published his First Symphony in 1876 and followed it a year later with the Second...