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...WHAT DID YOU EXPECT to find in the Abbey Road vaults--Al Capone? The hype preceding last week's debut of Free as a Bird, the Beatles' first new single since The Long and Winding Road in 1970, was so intense that anything short of the world premiere of Beethoven's 10th would have been anticlimactic. The clock on the Sunday edition of abc's Beatles Anthology didn't help: Two minutes to Free as a Bird ... one minute ... 15 seconds ... as if it were a countdown to a very special Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Coming...
...learned how to write songs--the Beatles' enduring legacy. Even their cover versions sound great. "What we generated was fantastic when we played straight rock,'' Lennon says in an interview heard on the album. "And there was nobody to touch us in Britain.'' Listen to Money or Roll Over Beethoven here to see he wasn't bragging...
Just turning 80, Wild is as productive and more musically rewarding than ever. This week he plays a birthday concert in Carnegie Hall, featuring works by Lizst, Chopin and Beethoven. Sony Classics, meanwhile, has just released a new CD, The Romantic Master, which is largely devoted to Wild's own dazzling transcriptions, among them the delightful Reminiscences of Snow White, a fantasy on Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 Disney animated film. But lest one think that Wild is all flash and no substance, his recent recording of Beethoven's thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly...
Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...
These objections run contrary to the idea of music embodied by Beethoven and endanger the future of the music itself. Beethoven saw his music as forging a common emotional bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries...