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...friend of the late Edward MacDowell and a pupil of the late Henry Hadley, Barrymore took up the piano at the age of 17. In his Hollywood home he has one of the most magnificent record collections in the movie colony. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel and Anton Bruckner. He is a not-too-expert performer on the oboe. About In Memoriam last week he was characteristically unassuming: "If the great masters were listening . . . I'm sure they'd be gentlemen enough to consider the intent of my music rather than the execution...
...crumble but our hearts stay firm." Tiredly, Propagandist Joseph Goebbels eulogized: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks." Discreetly the radio did not play the Horst Wessel Song or the refrain: Today Germany, tomorrow the world!; instead, it broadcast a Handel Concerto Grosso, Beethoven's Eroica...
...Beethoven's Flame. Famous exponents of Chaminade's music included Nellie Melba and John Philip Sousa, who liked to play the tiny piano pieces in full brass-band arrangements. At the height of Chaminade's vogue, in the early 1900s, her U.S. feminine admirers had formed more than 200 "Chaminade Clubs." Her Scarf Dance ended by selling over five million copies...
...fluttery little woman fond of long white gowns, Chaminade gave her recitals before banks of potted palms. She claimed that the soul of Beethoven once appeared outside her window in the form of a flame and burned briskly while she played the piano. In middle age she married a Marseilles music publisher named Carbonnel, who died five years later. A Philadelphia reviewer once mistakenly noted that she had never been married. "She is called Mme. Chaminade," he explained, "because she is wedded...
With extreme pleasure I was reading your article concerning Anton Bruckner (March 27). On the other side, Bruckner is considered as Beethoven's only equal in the symphonic field. Born in Vienna and a musician myself (in civilian life, of course), I fought for Anton Bruckner all my life and I was surprised to find, when I came to this country, that almost nobody had ever heard of him. In Austria and Germany Bruckner's name appeared on concert programs as often as Beethoven's and is familiar to everyone who appreciates good music. Bruno Walter made...