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Three years before Ludwig van Beethoven shook his great fist at the thunder & lightning raging outside his window and fell back dead on his bed, his Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes...
When Arturo Toscanini finished conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the demonstration took the same emotional turn as the scene in Vienna 108 years ago Toscanini had given a great concert, perhaps the greatest he has ever given. But more, the audience had not seen & heard him for weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed...
...conduct just one concert, reflected Arturo Toscanini, one really should select the Perfect Program. Last week he announced that when he leads the Philharmonic Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...Ludwig van Beethoven", Professor Burkhard, Germanic Lecture Room. "Italian Paintaing of the High Renaissance", Professor Edgell, Emerson...
...Harvard University Orchestrs, Pierian Sodality of 1808, will give a concert tomorrow in Paine Hall at 8.15 o'clock. The program conducted by Mr. G. W. Woodworth, will consist of music by Bach, Beethoven, deFalls and Florent Schmitte...