Word: eroica
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...music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take a chance on unknown modern composers. At the same time, recordings of well-known music are almost choking each other (there are no fewer than 21 recordings of Beethoven's Eroica on the market, 16 of Brahms's First Symphony...
...Department and for the benefit of the Germanic Museum. On a balmy June night 15,000 people filled the Classic Horseshoe to watch Miss Adams and a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, soldiers and archers parade across the Battlefield of France, while a hidden orchestra played Beethovan's "Eroica' Symphony...
...Arts. Composers, according to Dr. Lehman, write their best symphonies and songs between 30 and 34 (this would cover few of Schubert's songs, since he died at 31; it includes Beethoven's Eroica, but not his Ninth). Chamber music and grand opera written between 35 and 39 have achieved the greatest fame. Wagner wrote Tannhäuser and Lohengrin in his 30s, and by 40 was working on The Ring. Verdi was a clear exception. He churned out 25 operas by the time he was 58, then went into semiretirement. Meanwhile, Wagner's fame soared...
...member Chicago Symphony came next, for its first visit in 13 years. Its conductor, Rafael Kubelik, was in an awkward spot, since the Chicago is not renewing his contract (the Metropolitan Opera's Fritz Reiner will succeed him). But he picked an ambitious program, including Beethoven's Eroica and Modernist Bohuslav Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Kettledrums, and led his musicians in some expansive, grand-manner interpretations...
...last week at a state funeral attended by 200,000 angry West Berliners. An honor guard of 250 riot squadders snapped to attention as Bauer's cortege rolled into the square in front of West Berlin City Hall; massed bands played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica; Mayor Ernst Reuter delivered the oration: "Never do we want to fall victim to the system to which Herbert Bauer fell victim ... If mankind can't help us, we will lift up our hands and cry 'Oh Lord, make us free.' " When it was all over, Patrolman...