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...program of the opening concert of the series will be: Beethoven, Sextet in E-flat, Opus 81b for String Quartet and Two Horns (with Messrs. W. Valkenier and M. Lannoye of the Boston Symphony Orchestra); Hindemith, Third String Quartet; and Brahms, Quartet in C minor, Opus 51. The members of the quartet are Norbert Lauga, first violin, Clarence Kundson, second violin, Joan Cauhapo, viola, and Yves Chardon, 'cello, all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...sonatas of Beethoven, largely due to that composer's excited and undecipherable penmanship, have long afforded musical technicians all entertaining field of controversy. Mr. McEwen's introduction to an Unpublished Volume of the Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven, dealing as it does with the intricacies of editorship, is a book primarily for experts. The blunt layman who undertakes one of Beethoven's Sonatas, or even an excellent amateur, for that matter, after observing the general marks of performance appearing in any of the various editions, can best answer the question of "How should this music be played?" by the best interpretation...
...appreciation of Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...with Parisians and their frothy musical tastes; with Parisians because they rarely performed his music to his liking, or did not trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules...
...devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman of the college carpentry crew. He likes to shout labor speeches, sing labor songs, play Beethoven on Commonwealth's portable phonograph. Last spring Director Koch took four commoners to Kentucky's Harlan and Bell Counties to distribute food & clothing, make speeches on the Bill of Rights. They were beaten, ejected...