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...music season isn't in full swing yet, but there should be at least one throughly enjoyable concert Friday evening, when Kirkland's brand new Boesendorfer piano can be heard in its solo recital debut. Seth Carlin will play program featuring Beethoven's oft-featured Waldstein sonata and one of Schoenberg's first serial works, the Five Pieces, Op. 23. Maryse Carlin (playing a Steinway) will join Seth in a performance of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos. Also, Brahms: Eight Pieces...
...roof garden that was build on top of Hemispheres' two rooms. The downstairs area still has an atmosphere that can only be described as unique--where else other than the Sistine Chapel is the ceiling (covered by art prints) more interesting than the walls? The best of Bach and Beethoven rounds out the "cultured" atmosphere and also serves to filter out the noise of the Mt. Auburn St. delivery trucks and buses...
...played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill. His bar mitzvah production is a triumphant, unconscious (on his part) parody combining the most tiresome features of the anthropological and popular front documentaries of another time. Beethoven's Fifth provides the musical score, Elliott himself the pompous narration, holding together shots of the ceremony itself, African puberty rituals and Nazis on the march-all pottily proving that little Bernie Farber, the junk dealer's son, stands at the confluence of mighty historical forces...
...work shows the unmistakable influence of the concertos written by the elder Mozart a generation before. But then so did most everything written in the post-Mozart era. What is interesting about Franz's concerto is the way it has absorbed some of the innovations of Beethoven and Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann...
...time went on, The Beatles became much more than fantasies of pre-pubescent girls. Esquire Magazine dubbed The Beatles "Purveyors of the New Sentimentality"; newspapers hailed them as "the Voice of the '60 s"; and critics compared them to Beethoven and Chopin, Sinatra and Presley, Eliot and O'Neill. In high schools, English teachers used "relevant" Beatle songs to communicate with their alienated students. In academia, scholars minutely analyzed the irony and symbolism of "Sergeant Pepper." People were married to the music of The Beatles, and at least one man had his funeral conducted to the tunes of the Liverpool...