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...military brat born on the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Michael did not discover classical music until age 15. He taught himself orchestration, studying Beethoven string quartets that he checked out from the library, and attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Walsh was classical-music critic for the San Francisco Examiner before joining TIME in 1981. His passionate, sharply reasoned reviews have been informed by his eclectic musical tastes, which range from '60s rock to Broadway melodist Andrew Lloyd Webber, about whom he wrote a 1988 TIME cover story as well...
...Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Chabrier, Bach-Cailliet, Loewe-Hayman. Harry Ellis Dickson Conducting...
...grand finale of the weekend was a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Symphony Hall in Boston Sunday night with four student groups: the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Harvard Glee Club...
America is the land of the perpetual teen. We want to stay young forever, to build longer-lasting bodies and minds nourished on fantasy. Let somebody else play grownup; we're all too busy being Aladdin, pledging for Animal House, romping in the backyard with a dog named Beethoven, living in Wayne's World...
...most prominently Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Graffman, a dazzling stylist whose troubles began when he first sprained the fourth finger on his right hand while playing an unresponsive instrument in Berlin, has been a left- handed pianist since 1979. Fleisher, a towering performer whose 1958-62 cycle of Beethoven concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra remains a pinnacle of modern recordings, first noticed a loss of feeling in his right hand at the peak of his career in 1964. A year later, at age 38, he ! was incapable of using it at the keyboard, and he ceased...