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Word: haydn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience forgot its fidgets when the quartet began playing Mozart. Twenty youths walked out between movements-they were newsboys, already late for their routes. The next piece, Brahms, was harder going for the kids, but they stood it. A Haydn quartet recaptured their interest, earned the Pro Arte three noisy curtain calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings in Watertown | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Concert Master": Two Symphonies by Haydn 8:30 "The Man You Want to Meet": Interview 9:00 "South of the Border": Music of the Americas 9:30 "Crimson Capers": Harvard Talent Show from minutes to music-makers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Vaughan Williams Symphony in F Hoist St. Paul's Suite Hoist The Planets 10:45 Crimson News and interview

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based on a type...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

Among modern imitations of classicism, Prokofieff's Classical Symphony has received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

...repeating, even within this limited field, of a stock routine of standard works, not enough probing into minor musical literature. It is true, of course, that classical and pre-classical music exists largely in small forms, unfit for the symphony orchestra. But there are over a hundred symphonics by Haydn, suites from Bach, Telemann, and Handel. Why should we be forced to listen to ten performances of the Tchaikowski Pathetique for every one of the Mozart E-flat? Is it because classical music is comparatively quiet and unexciting that it is so neglected? The E-flat symphony...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

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