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...Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...
...more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility for him to be obvious or hollow. Such defects get into works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas...
Manhattan's Beethoven Symphony Orchestra struck financial snags last week. Unpaid, 102 musicians refused to rehearse. That payroll was finally met, patrons were reassured; but when they arrived for the next concert, placards posted outside told them it had been postponed. Conductor Georges Zaslawsky complained of a heart attack. Violinist Paul Kochanski, who was to have been soloist, complained he was not paid according to contract. Rumor had it that Mrs. Clarence Chew Burger, the Symphony's chief underwriter and conductor's friend, had withdrawn her support...