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Passionate Embrace. Last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall was typical, as the pair embarked on the first of two joint recitals of all of Beethoven's music for cello and piano. With a quick glance at each other, they launched into the brief unison opening of the Sonata, Opus...
...have never been fully deciphered, and may never have come wholly clear to Runge himself. Evidently he was combining several systems of mythChristian, Judaic, classicalin one encyclopedic statement. But for all its obscurities, its transcendent optimism blazes forth: this is the closest contemporary equivalent to Beethoven...
...line of empire is being besieged on two sides by the Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass who scorns the bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin v. tired stag disappointment. Neither the audience nor Father Collins can mistake the meaning of her persistent frustrated sighs...
...June, Edward ("Ted") Heath invited a few colleagues in for tea at 10 Downing Street. When someone remarked the new Prime Minister's Steinway had already been installed in the drawing room, Heath sat down at the keyboard and began to play. After he had completed an entire Beethoven sonata, he stood up. "I'm sorry," he said, "but, gentlemen, when I start something, I always finish...
...writes of the joyfulness of the Consciousness III group. It has, he says, "rediscovered a childlike quality that it supremely treasures, to which it gives its ultimate sign of reverence, vulnerability and innocence, 'Oh Wow!' " Reich has little judgment and no fairness or consistency. He slightingly compares Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Rolling Stones' music. After angrily asserting that the Corporate State has destroyed soul-refreshing silence, he praises the omnipresence of the rock beat in America. He blithely assumes that once human priorities have been reordered, the technology that has simultaneously dehumanized...