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Lydia Artymiw, piano, plays Beethoven Sonata, Op. 27 #1, Schumann Fantasiestucke, Schubert Sonata, Op. 42, Chopin. Free. Sunday...
...Apple Hill Chamber players perform Faure, Martinu, and Beethoven. Tickets: $3.50, Students $2.50. Friday...
...committed to his politics that he refused to listen to Beethoven because he thought it would soften him too much." We managed to feel embarrassed for not knowing Lenin's musical preferences, but I didn't do too badly. I kept a record of my point total, and by the end of the semester I had won an all-expense paid trip to a colloquium on literature being held in Berlin...
...Earnest put on by the local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard's Carr is a rambling codger in a floor-length dressing gown as he tells us Stoppard's story in flash-backs, wreathing himself in cigarette smoke as he pounds out a travesty of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata whenever he wants the audience to realize he is saying something meant to be profound...
...Lenin-dadaism and socialist realism--are both attacks on the conventional bourgeois notion of art, though from different directions. Yet just as Tzara becomes as conventionally middle-class as a character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Lenin himself is only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti-social artist. Stoppard should have spent less time trying to be clever in the first act and moving in the second...