Word: eroica
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...overtake the intricacy of the music, her timbre unfaltering. Though Mutter's rendition of the concerto was very bright in tone, it was by no means what you would call a "risky performance" or a "quirky interpretation." Though the Concerto was written at the time of the darker Eroica and Fifth Symphonies, the intent of the Concerto seems more lyrical than heroic...
Classical music connoisseurs, get down and Baroque with the Bach Society. Appreciate the torrential strains of Stravinksy's "The Soldier's Tale," Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" and Beethoven's Symphony #3, "Eroica." 8 to 10 p.m., Paine Hall. $5 students, $8 general...
...kind of feeling that words could hardly frame. At Boston's Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf laid down his baton, raised it again for the funeral march from the Eroica. On a Washington street corner, a blind Negro woman plucked at the strings of her guitar, half-singing, half-weeping a dirge: "He promised never to leave me." And on Commerce Street in Dallas, in an incident little noted at the time but to assume later significance, Jack Ruby silently closed down his strip-tease joint, the Carousel...
...like his father. Although scholarship more modern than Erich Kleiber's does not seem to support this novel gesture, it remains a provocative idea. Kleiber also manages to strike a balance between Beethoven's demands for an Allegretto in this movement and the correspondence other conductors note with the Eroica's funeral march...
Boston Symphony Orchestra-with conducter Seiji Ozawa and pianist Leon Fleisher performs Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture, Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand and Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony. In Boston Symphony Hall. Tickets are priced from $20 to $52.50. Call 266-1200. Friday...