Word: beethovens
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...podium are behind him, the long slender hands still dance like birds when he conducts, the silver mane still shakes in splendid disarray, the great craggy profile still sparks a response. And as always, he still juggles the orchestra's seating arrangements to gain special effects, still edits Beethoven and Brahms to suit his own taste...
...last book was written under a painful burden of arthritis. What kept her going? "My gambler's spirit, my instinct for the game of life." Night after night, often all night, the aging lioness with the mad grey mane and a brow like Beethoven's sat writing under the strong blue light she loved. "Go away slowly, slowly, without tears; forget nothing! Go away adorned, and do not stop on the irresistible way, do not stop for rest except to die. And if you have, to the very end, kept in your hand the friendly hand that guides...
...station doesn't want to give time to what he calls "little white boys playing Negro music." Following the image also means that commercials "with the Kingston Trio singing jingles," are taboo. Even in classical music, familiarity can bar a acceptable work from the WHRB list--something like Beethoven's Fifth is never heard on a regular show...
...with both listeners and the members. As Webb puts it, "Orgies are a chance for CM's like me to let their hair down." He is responsible for the orgy of War Horses--classical music other stations might play, but which WHRB would never touch on a regular show--Beethoven's Fifth, perhaps the Ninth, Dvorak's New World Symphony, and "almost all of Tchaikovsky." Other members offer orgies of "Mothers Day request music," Bossa Nova, Muddy Waters, Mozart, or "Music in E flat...
...cared--being protected by his knowledge that, somewhere, over in Boston, in far corners of Cambridge, in the 'academic underground," there were countless esoteric households who were listening to good music, and not over their phones. --each of them sincerly thanking him for never letting the Beetles, Baez, or Beethoven's Fifth clutter his "air," and for remembering to play their favorite Renaissance music