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...musical highlight of the evening was Ursula Oppens' fine performance of the Beethoven Second Piano Concerto. Miss Oppens' command of the instrument is now familiar to Cambridge audiences; her phrasing last night was beautiful, revealing a through understanding of the music. Only occasionally did exaggerated rubato obscure a cadence or mar an elision. Her musicianship showed through especially in the pedalling of the second movement and throughout the cadenza of the first. The orchestra, despite an irresistable tendency to rush, supported her quite well. The soloist herself took command when the Adagio turned into an Andante in restoring the original...
...born painter, Pavel Tchelit-chew (through May 24); a comprehensive survey of Pre-Raphaelite painting that includes Founders William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; also, a 50-work showing of French Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle who, before his death in 1929, did 21 agonized studies of Beethoven, some of them on view. Both through...
...BEETHOVEN: SONATAS NO. 12 AND 18 (London). Wilhelm Backhaus, 80, has spent a lifetime studying and restudying Beethoven. He is now rerecording some of the sonatas, with a technique that is still formidable, an interpretation that is firm, majestic and less personal than that of Artur Schnabel, his late great contemporary. Only in the Funeral March of the 12th is Backhaus disappointing; he seems to be impatient, even bored...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
...beauty is lustful and corrupt." Cheever's mother and her parents emigrated from England, and, he says, "there was a certain air of shabby gentility about the whole thing. I hate to speak about the twilight of Athenian Boston and all that, but Cousin Randall would play two Beethoven sonatas after dinner, and everyone would sit around and belch...