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Stonehouse lived quietly in Melbourne, listening to Bach and Beethoven tapes and sunbathing at his residential club. But the presence of the tall distinguished stranger was noticed by police already on the lookout for another missing Englishman, Lord Lucan, 39, who disappeared after the November slaying of his children's nanny (TIME, Nov. 25). Stonehouse was arrested on Christmas Eve. The next day he pleaded before a Melbourne magistrate to be allowed to remain in Australia and start a new life; the court is expected to rule on his case this week. "I only wish," Stonehouse said, "that...
...Beethoven: Sonata No. 31, Op. 110; Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 (Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy; London, $6.98). There is no halfway point in attitudes toward late Beethoven. For performers and listeners alike, it is either the ultimate in communicative art or too personal and troubled to share with a large audience. Rubinstein and Horowitz subscribe to the latter view and avoid both the music and the problem. Even a comparative youngster like Cliburn has kept his interpretive thoughts on the matter largely to himself. Fortunately there is Ashkenazy, the finest all-round pianist in music today, a man who is possessed...
...conducting; Philips, $7.98). One of the fantastic things about this symphony is the number of superior recorded performances it has had over the years. Argenta, Beecham, Munch, Van Beinum and Ozawa are among the many who have mastered this wildly prophetic score, completed in 1830, only three years after Beethoven's death. Here are two new versions, both by virtuoso conductors and virtuoso orchestras, that go to the top of the list. To choose between them is difficult. Davis' elegant approach is underlined, and undermined, by Philips' lusciously veiled, soft-edged acoustics-and by a splitting...
...with filial piety. There are 650 oils, watercolors, prints and drawings on view, too many to see in one day. In their range-from the earliest imitative watercolors of picturesque scenery, through the imitations of Claude, the French landscapist, the seascapes, the Italian scenes, and so on to the Beethoven-like grandeur of the last landscapes-they form the best pos sible introduction to this coarsely explicit but mysterious Englishman...
THERE IS NO better occasion than a birthday to pay homage to a great composer, and in honor of Beethoven's 204th, the Bach Society Orchestra played an all-Beethoven concert last Saturday evening. Chosen from Beethoven's seven concertos and nine symphonies, the Violin Concerto in D. Opus 61 (1806), offered a change of solo instrument after performances of piano concertos in the past two concerts, and the Symphony Number Eight in F, Opus 93 (1812), was simply the only one that could be managed by the small 43-man orchestra...