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With the closing of the Beethoven Centenary Festival last night, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society completed the triumph achieved in the Mass by an excellent presentation of the stirring chorus in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. The chorus, somewhat smaller than that which took part in the Mass sang the difficult musical setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, with the finest of technique and intelligence of expression which might have been expected from the work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must...
Last week the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played without a leader. On the empty conductor's stand an open score, a slim baton lay idle; before it musicians bent to their instruments, swept through Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, through the inspiring Andante Cantabile of Tschaikowsky with a feeling they had seldom known before. Below them in a flower-banked casket, their director lay dead. He, Walter Henry Rothwell, had died of apoplexy, seated at the wheel of his automobile. Through eight seasons he had guided their destinies with a firm hand...
Simultaneous with this news, celebrations reached their climax for the centenary of the death of a music master whose affliction was even greater, for a musician, than blindness. Ludwig van Beethoven was bodily sound but became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...
...Damon '14, president of the New England Poetry Club and assistant professor in English will read his "Beethoven: An Ode" tonight in Symphony Hall. The reading will be a part of the Beethoven services now being held in Boston...
...attend the lecture of Ernest Newman at Symphony Hall this evening. Mr. Newman, the music critic of the London Sunday Times, is considered one of the foremost authorities in the world, and has come all the way from England especially to deliver this lecture in connection with the Beethoven Centenary...