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...much that is composed today seems to be done with electronics, or kitchen utensils. The score looks like an engineering design, and you feel that, instead of a musician, you are an atomic engineer. Yet I hesitate to reject it. Beethoven and Mozart never heard the sounds of today-the ringing of a telephone, the roar of a jet engine starting. If they had, perhaps they would have utilized them in their music. The same goes for plastic art. Leonardo da Vinci never saw New York City at night. Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have...
...concert at the university's Stony Brook campus on Long Island last week the quartet played works by Beethoven, Ives and Karl Korte, and played them with an ease and elegance rare among American chamber- music makers. Where most native groups feature a sharp-edged attack that glitters most brightly m contemporary music, the Beaux-Arts glides throughout the reper tory with a silken, unruffled sheen and a cozy, old-world tonal blend...
EUGENE Indjic stepped jauntily onstage Tuesday evening at Sanders Theater and presented his musical credentials for the first time before a Harvard audience. The recital included works by Beethoven and Chopin that are among the most demanding in the standard piano repertoire, and local piano wonks had been worrying ever since the fiiers appeared on the house bulletin boards about where Indjic would get the strength to bring them all under control...
...clear, though, from the very first phrase of Beethoven's knotty Op. 111, that the performance would in no way resemble a wrestling match, and that technically Indjic was more than the man for the task. He played through the Chopin--six selected Etudes and two Ballades, in F major and F minor--with no sign of discomfort and though he visibly steeled himself before launching into the strenuous "Appasionata," he seemed to gather a second, or perhaps third wind and afterwards played two sparkling Debussy encores...
...Playing Beethoven is a formidable, at times an impossible, undertaking. Perhaps Indjic's failure in this effort lay in not, in either a musical or a spiritual sense, listening for the inner voices. Beethoven is at all times a contrapuntist--essentially a fellow traveller with Bach. Because Indjic failed to convey this essence his performances of the two sonates were generally uninteresting and at times annoying. Nor did Indjic seem to be aware of the overall structure of the works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them...