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...anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties." For three hours a day she worked at piano and composition, presently had her score ready for Conductor Willem van Hoogsträten. She also composed a nocturne and an Irish reel, orchestrated a Beethoven Sonata. Smart, fiftyish, she sat in the floodlighted Stadium the night of its performance, wondered how the Polonaise would sound...
...Hoover's Unemployment Relief) and Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt (singers). Asked if husbands approved, Mrs. Mitchell said: "One night I had a party for Count Apponyi of Hungary. And he was telling us a beautiful anecdote about how his grandfather had heard a string quartet play one of Beethoven's compositions the first time. Beethoven was an unknown. Count Apponyi's grandfather alone had defended the piece, but do you know what the men were doing all the time the Count was telling that story? They were saying, 'Why I'd have won that...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...
...following program under the direction of Arthur Fiedler will be presented at the Pops tonight beginning at 8.30 o'clock. 1. Sambre et Heuse March Ganne 2. Euryanthe Overture Weber 3. H. Symphony, allegretto schetzando Beethoven 4. Swan Lake, Suite Intermission Tchaikowsky 5. Pacific 2-3-1, Symphonic movement Honegger 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. First Hungarian Rhapsody Intermission Liszt 8. Roses from the South, waltz Strauss 9. Humoresque Dvorak 10. Aragonaise, from the "Cid" Massenet
...Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata in B fiat by Felix Weingartner and the Royal Philharmonic (Columbia, $10)?A great conductor makes a satisfactory symphony out of a great piano sonata...