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...wild combination in any man's way of thinking. But such a combination conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...
...subtonic adjustments of his breath and lip muscles rather than on the finger and arm motions, which most other musicians employ. The difficulty of tone production is especially important when the player must enter after a long period of rest. In music of the pre-Romantic period--for example, Beethoven's First Symphony in the next Friday and Saturday symphony concerts--the player must continually pick out notes without preparation after his instrument has become cold and his lips have stiffened...
...baby-grand piano and sounds like a choir of mandolins, was once the most important of concert instruments. Before it was ousted (at the beginning of the 19th Century) by the louder and more flexible modern piano, composers like Bach and Handel wrote sheaves of compositions for it. Even Beethoven turned out a batch of sonatas for the harpsichord. Today, harpsichord playing occupies the position that falconry does in the field of sports. And most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano. But today's handful of harpsichordists point out the undeniable fact that...
Opening a series of three performances at Harvard, the Stradivarius Quartet will give a free public concert in the Fogg Museum of Art tonight at 8:15 o'clock. The program will include selections from Purcell, Haydn, Bartok, and Beethoven...
...dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...