Word: beethovens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musical virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird School pianist-will play the work of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Swanson, and Prakofiev...
After leading the Israel Philharmonic through a performance of Beethoven's "Eroica," visiting Conductor Leonard Bernstein exclaimed "I love her!" and clasped Golda Meir in an embrace that nearly knocked the Premier off her feet. "Not even Jacqueline got one like that," noted one Israeli. Mrs. Meir, 71, giggled and wore a wide grin for the rest of the evening...
Record collectors have long been accustomed to a one-sided search for one particular piece in a maze of two-faced records. Is that Mozart's 40th on the flip side of Haydn's 88th? Is Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata on the other side of the Schumann Piano Concerto? Now this petty but annoying problem is all but solved. More and more companies are offering omnibus collections of great composers in one volume, uniformly boxed and carefully indexed...
Leonard Bernstein: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies (8 disks; $35.98; Columbia). A great many complete sets of the Nine already exist: Klemperer, Karajan, Leinsdorf, Ormandy, Toscanini, Walter. But Bernstein's is the newest, and as a Beethoven interpreter he is both fiery and energetic, qualities highly necessary to this music. Calmer moments (as in the "Pastoral") now and then take on a tense, leashed-down quality that make a listener unnecessarily impatient for the storm to come. Particularly recommended to those who see Beethoven as a man with thunder in his eyes and lightning flashing from his fingertips...
That pragmatic philosophy would sound right issuing from the clenched lips of Nominee Dustin Hoffman, who declines to attend the spectacle. But from the bow lips of the narrow-shouldered lass with the French intonations? Tiens, it is like a kitten purring Beethoven. And Geneviève insists that there are more at home like her. "European women-they're so exaggerated," she declares. "Like Frenchwomen, they're such bitches. They look at each other, not men. And American women-they have no secrets. The best women-I have to say it-are Canadians. No one has noticed...