Word: eroica
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...novel itself is divided into four movements corresponding to the parts of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "The Eroica." (Beethoven originally dedicated "The Eroica " to Napoleon, but tore up the dedication after the First Consul of France crowned himself Emperor.) At times the Burgess Bonaparte resembles a cross between Charles de Gaulle and Douglas MacArthur. At times he is an 18th century Mafia capo trying to manage overextended holdings and control his greedy relatives. Burgess seeks to evoke the heaving spirit of the Napoleonic age by rouging (and noiring) the historical facts with catchy dialogue and fantasy. As he points...
...Beethoven is supposed to have said when he retracted the dedication of "The Eroica," "Held, nein [Hero...
Marionettes. A marionette show, including "Bastien and Bastienne," a pastoral opera Mozart wrote at some ridiculously early age in a successful attempt to show he could come up with the Eroica Symphony's theme. 7:30 and 9 p.m., in Room 401 of the Carpenter Center...
...center of the field. The stand was draped in black, and for the first time in Olympic history the flags of 122 competing nations and the Olympic flag flew at half-staff. Munich's Philharmonic orchestra played the sad strains of the funeral movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Declared West Germany's President Gustav Heinemann: "We stand helpless before a truly despicable...
Chopin? This is no ordinary roustabout, no average hardhat. This is a supergypsy, Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...