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...Chorus, Collegium Musicum, Glee Club. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis. Tickets: $5-$2. Friday, March...
Ophra Yerushaimi, pianist, in recital. Works of Beethoven and Liszt. Free. Sunday, March...
Stephen Drury, pianist, in recital. Beethoven piano sonatas Op. 57 (Apassionata), 109. Free. Friday, February...
...Hsiaoping, a capable economic administrator, has recently jumped into the lineup of Politburo members ahead of Chiang Ching, who has been a virtual despot in the performing arts since the Great Cultural Revolution. Chiang Ching, who is married to Mao Tse-Tung, had asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to play Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony last fall, and it is still not clear whether her position has changed or he role in the art has diminished...
...articles attacking Beethoven, Schubert, and Respighi urge people to struggle against the influence of the decadent works. Perhaps battling music in this way can help unify a country like a war or the struggle against Marshal Lin. And by denouncing a work played by a U.S. orchestra, the Chinese articles are indirectly denouncing U.S. cultural imperialism in general. But the works of Beethoven and Schubert are among the achievements most worth preserving out of all Western civilization. With so many insidious U.S. cultural influences working around the globe, it is an appalling misdirection of energy for Chinese Communism to mount...