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...national calibre unit is the top contingent in the East, having won one trip to the Omaha, Neb., College World Series of Baseball, having successfully and carefully orchestrated the talents of each integer of the whole into a sum success with the diligence, the mastery, the care, that a Beethoven, a Mozart, a Chopin exerted in blending the harmonies and rhythms of their art, having created a smooth and masterful whole from diverse and individual bits and pieces, having molded a swashbuckling and exciting style of diamond exhibition, having succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of a John Harvard Doubleday...
Wintry Fare. At age 30, Conductor James Levine is on his way. A virtual unknown three years ago, Levine now ranks with Michael Tilson Thomas, 28, as one of the two hottest young conductors on the American scene. Tackling such wintry fare as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, or sitting down at the piano to conduct and play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 with a crystalline joy, Levine has given this summer's Ravinia programs new musical depth as well as box office appeal...
...dramaturgy. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth hears the chilling pounding at the gate and has second thoughts: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" How follow such a climactic moment? Shakespeare's solution was perfect. The only comparable spot I can think of occurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, when the full chorus climaxes thrillingly with words about "standing before God," and is followed by the ludicrously syncopated sounds of a distant street-march...
Shostakovich was on his way to get an honorary degree from Northwestern University. After talking to the composer about his visit to the campus, his host, Dr. Irwin Weil, said, "I feel like I've just talked to Beethoven...
...Japanese proverb has applied all too well: "The child prodigy at ten has talent at 15 and is mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest entrants in the prodigy sweepstakes...