Word: eroica
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...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...
...England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...
...Leubdorf (to borrow from his name the "S" he neglects to place in "Nietzche") is the most adroit magician and so the most irritating, for one feels that if he stopped sliding loosely from metaphor to metaphor he might make something of the more melodic lines of "End of Eroica." On the other hand, looking at "Nietzche," I'm not so sure. What is one to make...
Still, make no mistake: Virginia Woolf is a monumental achievement against any standards. And in terms of Albee's own development, it represents a gigantic stride forward. This work is Albee's Eroica Symphony (the finale of Beethoven's is a similar letdown). In our own time, this blockbuster of a stage quartet will likely turn out to be to the drama of the 1960's what Elliott Carter's behemoth of a string quartet was to the music...
...London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Klemperer is regarded as the master of the 19th century romantics -Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner. Last week's concert demonstrated why. Seated on a high wooden chair, his right hand clenched in a fist, Klemperer led the Philadelphia through performances of Beethoven's Eroica and Pastoral symphonies that were wonders of clarity and searching detail. Under Klemperer, the familiar, voluptuous Philadelphia sound faded away; the orchestra sounded lean and meticulously responsive as it played at tempi more deliberate than any other conductor would dare use (the New York Times's Harold Schonberg...