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Lesley Amper, piano, plays works of Brahms, Edwards, and a Bethoven sonata. North House, Holmes Hall...
Most of Bourdelle's work produces its effect through form alone. Even his expressionistic "Bethoven" has little emotional impact. On the other hand, one can easily appreciate the balance in his "Heracles" between the verticals of the rock against which Hercules braces his forward foot, of his upraised brow and of the line of his head, body and right thigh, and the horizontals of his extended left leg and arm. Less rigid, but little less effective, is the way in which the soft, swelling contours of his "Cloud" are echoed by those of the nude who reclines...
...taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library, Professor Leo kich Lewis of Tufts College will give a lecture on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with musical illustrations which will certainly be well worth the attendance of a student vagabond. Not only is Bethoven's Mass one of the greatest works of a supreme master, but it has also at present so to speak a nearer interest, since it is to be sung by the University Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March...
...dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...