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Indian Hill Trio. Trios and sonatas for clarinet, cello, and piano. Works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann. Free. Friday, April...
...greatest effort. He brings them first to his high-ceilinged chamber in the Executive Office Building. It sets the tone with its elegant blue-gray walls, view of the White House, and medallions, statuettes and busts of Herschensohn's heroes: Nixon (several), Lincoln (two), Churchill, Washington, Moshe Dayan, Beethoven and a miniature Mt. Rushmore. If he can, Herschensohn takes his delegations first to the Cabinet Room. The moment is profound, rising to fortissimo on Nixon's blue and gold oval rug with the woven Presidential Seal...
...late-blooming free spirit who understands that his charges are unreachable through conventional pedagogy, and perhaps are already fatally damaged by it. He is willing to try everything from nature walks to wrestling matches to awaken them. Alternately putting himself and them on, cussing and intoning poetry, playing Beethoven records and old Hollywood pirate movies for them, he has an energy and exuberance that are infectious both to pupils and audience...
...Clair de la Lune"--were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I Come") but ignores that of Wolfgang Mozart ("Symphony No. 39 in E flat," "The Marriage of Figaro"). Nowhere in the songbook is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ("The Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose for it. (Late in his life, Beethoven is reported to have smashed his quill down on his writing table and shouted, "This damn...
Yannatos's conducting technique is excellent, and his orchestra responds well to him. But four rehearsals is barely enough time to prepare for an entire concert, so the rest of the evening didn't match the Piston. Beethoven's Second Symphony, first on the program, sometimes dragged during its second and third movements, and generally sounded less inspired than other HRO performances of Beethoven. Some extra rehearsing could have polished away the rough spots in both the tutti and solo sections...