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...message is simple: The Bach Society is good this year. Last weekend the orchestra, conducted by Robert Hart Baker, gave an excellent performance of the Bach Suite No. 3 in D, a credible performance of the Haydn "Clock" Symphony, and an exceptional performance of the Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto...
...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...
Choke Saver. Food inhalation has been a killer for centuries-all the more reason, Eller and Haugen say, for modern doctors to be familiar with the symptoms. A son of the Roman Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...
...populated by actors, balladeers, pimps, wrestlers, inquisitive artists and, above all, every class and kind of girl. Japan now experienced a split between country virtues and big-city decadence, and its conservatives bewailed the fact, especially when the rot seemed to have invaded the Imperial Palace. "His Highness (the Emperor) sings songs called nagebushi," complained one lord in 1718. "These are licentious tunes. It is extremely improper that a descendant of the revered Sun Goddess should do such things . . . which not even a right-thinking shopkeeper would...
...idol was Napoleon. He kept a little statue of the Emperor on his writing desk for inspiration. Balzac's opinion of his own worth was certainly Napoleonic: "I have the most extraordinary character. I am astonished by nothing more than myself." His goal was to do with his pen what Bonaparte had done with the sword. He succeeded. As V.S. Pritchett says, "His fecundity throbs, his power of documentation, his ubiquity as a novelist are extraordinary. There is the spry, pungent and pervasive sense that, in any scene, he was there and in the flesh...