Word: eroica
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After leading the Israel Philharmonic through a performance of Beethoven's "Eroica," visiting Conductor Leonard Bernstein exclaimed "I love her!" and clasped Golda Meir in an embrace that nearly knocked the Premier off her feet. "Not even Jacqueline got one like that," noted one Israeli. Mrs. Meir, 71, giggled and wore a wide grin for the rest of the evening...
...years, his recordings of Schoenberg, Berg, Debussy and Stravinsky have been such successes. Says the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta: "When he does Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, it's so clear and expert, it's like George Szell's Eroica. It gets on your nerves a bit, because you know you can't do it as correctly...
...first to admit that some of his gyrations are for the audience's benefit. "For a cymbal crash, the player will come in anyway, but if I give a big gesture, it just adds to the high point. Or in the development section of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, I'm not sure the audience is hearing everything-the different modulations, the canonic effects. I point to the orchestra as if to say 'Look who is playing. Now the theme is in the first violins; now it is in the basses...
Lazar chose a program of three chestnuts - or, more accurately, two oaks separated by a lilac bush. Wagners Meistersinger Prclude, Vaughan Williams Serehade to Music, and Beethoven's Eroica...
...evening's best playing came in the first three movements of the Eroica. Lazar led with authority, observed all the repeats, and superimposed no un-indicated retards. The tone had body, and the rhythm had vitality. Carl Schlaikjer's oboe-playing and Daniel Farber's kettledrumming were particularly expert; and all the hornists negotiated their treacherous parts with real heroism. There were some bad moments, such as the ragged fiddling at the start of the first movement's coda and the end of the funeral march; and a woodwind passage in the trio of the scherzo was muffed the first...