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...time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto the right keys; if it is a song, Schubert tries to sing it-but he hasn't got a very good voice. Beethoven and Bach prefer to have me seated at the table with pencil and paper; then they give me the key, the timing, the left hand and the right hand...
...that Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Fidelio in Vienna, a son was born to U.S. Soprano Olive Moorefield of Vienna's Volksoper and her husband, Dr. Kurt Mach. "Love and congratulations," Bernstein wired, "for Oliver Kurt Fidelio." The parents were delighted and added Fidelio to the boy's name. "Think of the poor baby's fate," mused an Austrian TV commentator, "if Lenny had conducted Die Meistersinger von Nੜrnberg that evening...
WHEN an orchestra stages a composer's birthday celebration, it usually does it for lack of anything better. But a bicentennial is something that has to be recognized, and the Boston Symphony decided to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth last week with a five day series of concerts, concentrating on the symphonies and piano concertos. The ailing music director, William Steinberg, brought in two distinguished conductors, Leonard Bernstein and Max Rudolf, and an equally fine pianist, Rudolf Serkin. As the week began, the prospects looked good...
...inferior results from all of the participants. Serkin's performances on the first few nights were wooden and incompatible with the orchestra, and the BSO, in its turn, was unused to Rudolf's distinctive style. Naturally, the performances did little to enhance the reputations of Serkin, Rudlof, BSO, or Beethoven...
...Ninth with Leinsdorf only last year, and it was clearly influenced by this experience. If only he had been given an extra week of work, Bernstein could probably have produced a memorable performance. The fact that he didn't can be traced to the basic fault of this Beethoven Festival: the incredibly stupid idea that an orchestra can produce a completely different concert every night for a week...