Word: beethovens
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...rare solo concerts, in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jazz Pianist-Composer Duke Ellington received an even rarer compliment. Togo's Ambassador to the U.S. presented him with a block of his country's stamps honor ing four great composers. "Ah," said the delighted Ellington, "Debussy, Bach, Beethoven-and Duke...
...Bach, Beethoven, Webern and Debussy. By Hampton Mallory '72, cello with Max Lifchitz, piano. Adams House JCR. 8:30, April 14. Free...
...example, can fail to understand such representational symbols as these widely used warnings against thin ice and falling rocks? But the Sourcebook also includes such arbitrary signs as plus and minus in mathematics and the clefs in music. These require preliminary explanations, Dreyfuss observes, but "you can play Beethoven in any language once you've learned the symbolic notes...
Kathy Kautski, pianist, plays music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Roger Sessions. Adams JCR, 8:30, Sat. Free...
Retiring after no less than 46 years with the New York Philharmonic, the world's top virtuoso on the kettledrums, Saul Goodman, let fall some acerbic sidelights on conductors he has known. Willem Mengelberg: "A very arrogant man. I think he was sure he looked like Beethoven." Artur Rodzinski: "The kind of fellow who made the musicians give him a birthday party at his own house." Seiji Ozawa: "An audience eye-catcher. More than that I can't say about him." Well, one thing more: "He's an egomaniac." Tympanist Goodman's own weakness-or perhaps...