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...following article on Beethoven was written by W. R. Spalding '87, Professor of Music in the University, for the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, and is in part reprinted here with permission...
...permanent vitality and worth? This question, however, can seldom be answered in the lifetime of the worker and still less frequently in that of the creative artist, it being an attribute of genius to be ahead of its own day and generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have retained their power to quicken and to exalt, and waiving the aspersions of those extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity"--let us indulge in, some reflections as to the reasons...
Following this line of suggestion, it is not difficult to understand the secret of Beethoven's appeal for an acquaintance with his works will corroborate the statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
...following program will be presented at the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall tonight. Old Dances and Airs for the Lute (freely arranged) Respight Largo Handel (Solo, violin, harp, organ and strings) Minuet from Septet Beethoven Overture to Cinderella Rossini Kamarinskula Glinka Fantasy on two Serbian Themes Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from "The Fire-Bird," a Danced Legend Stravinsky Third Slavonic Dance Dvorak "Spring" for String Orchestra Greig Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
...Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony...