Word: eroica
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...Hurry, Cicely, and finish your drink. There's the buzzer, and you know I don't want to miss the Eroica...
...knew the music of the great 19th century German symphonists almost note-perfectly, and he regarded them with an awe curious in a man so intoxicated with words. He once wrote to a friend: "I'd rather have written the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica than the Song of Solomon; it is not only far more beautiful, it is also far more profound. A better man wrote...
...making ceramics, doing woodwork and bookbinding, or putting their conflicts on canvas-some in the most modern nonobjective manner, others in representational styles recalling the tortured figures of Goya and the climbing workers of Rivera. From a low-fi record player came the inspirational strains of Beethoven's Eroica. The California Medical Facility is still a prison, but a prison with a difference...
...Vivaldi: Concerto #2 in G minor for flute (D); Schumann: Fantasiestucke (RCA); Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" (V) Copeland: Quiet City (Per); Liszt: Preludes...
Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...