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...decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll. Later he ruled that the jukeboxes could stay if they stuck to the classics-Beethoven and Chopin, for example. Meanwhile, police cleared the newsstands of pornography, padlocked eight girlie-magazine publishers and swooped through bars, sending B-girls home. Mapping a massive assault on Singapore's notorious gangsterism, police debated issuing identification cards to Singapore's 7,000 known hoods and pimps...
July 13: The Hamden Trio (Bruce Simonds, Robert Brink and Karl Ziese). Trios by Loeillet, Beethoven and Brahms...
...suspected that the book was studded with subterranean errors. To produce his new edition, he spent four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds broke over the city at 4 p.m., shortly before Beethoven died...
...provide Asian audiences with a rare sample of contemporary U.S. music, Conductor Scherman performed works by Wallingford Riegger, Virgil Thomson, Frederick Jacobi, Aaron Copland, discovered that they were just as warmly received as the repertory regulars-Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart...
...Beethoven: Twelve Scottish and Irish Songs (Richard Dyer-Bennet, tenor and instrumentalist; Dyer-Bennet Records). These rarely recorded songs are the fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy...