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...Bach's. Unable to recall it all, Felix improvised as he went along, weaving contrapuntal lines into a heavily brocaded baroque fabric that was good enough, at least, to convince Goethe. That was one of the few instances, however, when Mendelssohn's memory failed him. Shortly after Beethoven's Ninth Symphony came out, Mendelssohn, then 15, could play it all on the piano without a book...
...time we had a change," a Chinese friend told me. "There is not enough variety in our revolutionary operas." A graduate of a foreign-language institute, my friend had played the saxophone in the institute's orchestra. He also had had a fine collection of Chinese-made recordings of Beethoven's works, which he "lost" during the Cultural Revolution. How? "Well, perhaps my sister put them somewhere," he responded with a grin...
...movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line that characterized his first big success, The Moor's Pavane, which is still a favorite with the American Ballet Theater. Less striking but still provocative were Dances for Isadora, which drew on the Duncan story...
KIRKLAND JCR: Lyan Chang '75, and Marta Dabezies `72 perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Kirchner for violin and piano...
...able to enter." Meanwhile, as this decline went on, there was Stravinsky in print as a critic for Harper's, a seer for the New York Review of Books, and a chatty armchair philosopher in his own autobiographical books, waxing eloquent about the latest techniques in computer music, Beethoven sonatas, new plays, new ballets, the Panthers, and maxi fashions. The obvious conclusion is that the writer was mostly Craft...