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Every new mom I knew was rushing out to buy the latest in high-contrast black-and-white toys purported to stimulate neurological development. Musical crib mobiles playing Beethoven were suddenly the rage. Even videos claiming to help prepare four-month-olds for reading appeared on the market. The new data about the complex brain-wiring process that begins right after birth seemed to suggest that simply cooing and cuddling with Baby was not sufficient...
...brain cells last night. Make it up to yourself by helping out a good cause. Philips Brooks House Association's Chinatown Committee is holding a Chinatown Benefit Concert with performances by Albert Pan (cello), Andrew Park (piano) and Susan Koo (violin). The three will play works by Mendelssohn, Ravel, Beethoven and Brahms. It'll be one of the few things you do this weekend that you'll be able to tell your mom about. 8 p.m., Paine Hall...
...becoming the greatest American pianist of the century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordings--concertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose--have been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and force. Hear...
...reason for keeping me here is for education, not for music. It wasn't the University of Vienna that realized who Beethoven was; it was a bunch of very, very sensitive amateurs: his patrons. The University can evaluate that this guy is a competent composer, but that's peanuts. They keep me here for my educational value, which comes from my creativity and my idealism. They're not sitting here thinking, "Is this guy another Beethoven?" That's something you just can't decide...
...husband. Driving through Chestnut Hill and being in that house, I wonder...it's the kind of house I grew up in. But for me, this is the better choice. I mean, I don't think that they should dissolve Concord. My life is nothing like Beethoven's life, nothing like Verdi's, nothing like Mozart's, but rather similar to Bach's life. Bach spent the last (I think) 20 years of his life in this one church in Leipzig and he was sort of like composer in residence in that church. And his life was somewhat like...