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...coincidence that his greatest work came after he shed his livery." That was of course after he was given free rein by his employers, the Esterhazys, in 1790. He then wrote his best masses, oratorios, the last twelve symphonies, and spent his free time counseling upstarts like Beethoven and Weber...
...successful summer series of free Garden Concerts on the lawn of Longfellow's home, 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, runs into the school year for as long as the weather is bearable. This Sunday, the Trafford String Trio plays Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn...
...wind ensemble and marching band), and a 20-member jazz band. The various vocal organizations include the Harvard Glee Club (a traditional men's chorus of about 75 which appears occasionally with women's college choruses to perform a standard mixed chorus repertoire), the Collegium Musicum, which will perform Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony this year, the University church choir, the Radcliffe Choral Society, a newly formed women's chorus, the Krokodiloes and the Kuumba singers, a group of black vocalists specializing in gospel music and spirituals...
...sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude frontiersman was patronizing: his own land was the democratic future, free of the Old World's privileges and wars. "Every stroke of the ax and hoe," Henry Adams wrote sardonically, "made him a capitalist and made gentlemen of his children...
Chen knows that it becomes boring to swoon over each phrase of a piece without giving a strong sense of direction to the whole. So in his conducting, he takes extreme care to shape and mold the large sections. Last summer he did some work on Beethoven's Eighth Syphony with the Summer School Orchestra. The first movement of this piece is a big shout of excitement, energetic and very loud for the most part, with many fortissimo markings. However, at the beginning of the recapitulation, there is the only fortississimo marked, a distinction that is not easy to make...