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...Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
While we still have records, though, they should serve a better purpose than merely dinning a tune into people's heads. Throwing away Goodman's "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place," once you've tired of the tune, is like turning Beethoven's Fifth in for scrap because you know the ... theme. There's more to Goodman's record than the melody, the words, and Peggy Lee. After a lull of two months, it can be unexpectedly exciting. You can trace this to this arrangement (Eddie Sauter's?), which is distinctly first-rate. If Goodman had played the tune...
Britons are listening to more German music in the third year of World War II than ever before in their history. This curious state of affairs reflects a surprising wartime swing in British popular taste from dance music to concert music of which Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner are still the main staples...
...definition, can only mean itself. The parts of Shostakovitch's work which have rung true in the past have been the slow, introspective, semi-ecclesiastical movements like the first movement of his Fifth symphony. Here he is presenting the sombre, God-seeking element of Russian life that he understands. Beethoven was successful with his "Eroica" symphony in memory of Napoleon, because he himself was a big enough man to make the music strong and sincere. Shostakovitch is no Beethoven, and the twenties was not a time for breeding heroic figures, but what the present lacks in faith and breadth...
...convey her unique sensibility by sheer luminosity of language." And Between The Acts managed (not quite successfully, Mr. Daiches feels) to create an image of the whole past and present of England and resolve its mysteries and disparities in a nameless piece of music: "Was it Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, or nobody famous, but merely a traditional tune...