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...spite of his good resolutions not to attend classes, movies, or even to drink a drop during the Reading Period, the Vagabond will be lured from his books in order to hear Professors Spalding and Ballantine play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the Music Building at 10 o'clock today...
...Fifth Symphony in C minor, op. 67, is deservedly popular because it is so human; a translation, in fact, of life itself into the glowing language of music. Beethoven's emotional power was so deep and true that, in expressing himself, he spoke, like every great philosopher, poet or artist, for all mankind. Which one of us in his own experience, has not felt the same protests against relentless Fate that find such uncontrollable utterance in the first movement? Who, again, is untouched by that angelic message, set before us in the second movement, of hope and aspiration, of heroic...
...mutterings of the basses there ring out, on the horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate, it shall never pull me down'--to be compared only with Browning's 'God's in His heaven, all's right with the world,' and the peroration to Whitman's Mystic Trumpeter, 'Joy, joy, over all joy!' No adequate attempt could...
...child prodigy today can rival in fame young Yehudi Menuhin, 11-year-old violinist. A year ago he went East from California, astounded Manhattan with his masterly conception of the Beethoven concerto. Last week he went again, again played with the Philharmonic Orchestra, this time the Tschaikovsky concerto. But although now he plays on a full-sized fiddle and has a reputation which might well be the envy of many a full-sized fiddler, his perform ance last week suffered in comparison with the younger Yehudi's. As before, critics marked his amazing virtuosity, but many detected signs...
...Beethoven", (continued) Professor Spalding, Music Building...