Word: e-flat
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...group consisted of two violinists, Alexander Schneider and Isadore Cohen, one violist, Samuel Rhodes, and two cellists, Leslie Parnas and Robert Sylvester. They performed the String Quarter in E major, Opus 17, No. 1 by Hayden, Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, by Mozart, and Cello Quintet in C major, Opus 163, by Shubert. Of the musicians, the most distinguished was Alexander Schneider, who, with wirey grey-black hair and metal rimmed glasses, sat perched on the edge of his chair, playing with never-failing energy, expression, and accuracy...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
...heard that song before? He sure had. Back in 1948, David had written a tune called Sunflower. It sold 300,000 copies of sheet music and 2,000,000 recordings, but it disappeared from the ionosphere like Halley's comet. It goes like this (in E-flat...
...first New England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...
...variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher to suit the new instrument...