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Richard Kogan, piano; Lynn Chang, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata; Schubert: Trio in E-Flat. Free. Saturday, April 27, 8:30 p.m.DUNSTER LIBRARY...
THURSDAY: International Performance. Pianists Claudio Arrau and Robert Casadesus and violinist Zino Fraocescatti perform two Beethoven sonatus from the early years of the composer's deafness. "Appassionata (No. 23 in F Minor)" and "Kreutzer." CH. 2.9 p.m. Color...
...overture is when there's musketfire and everybody plays "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." We can just see old Beethoven, deaf as a coffee table, pounding his staff out of tune with the music, having a swell time, and musing over a new piece for that young violinist Kreutzer. Everyone has his bad days. You'll probably want to see The Touch, Ingmar Bergman's first English language motion picture, for yourself: go to an early show with your best friend and a bag of leechee nuts...
...TOLSTOY found in Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata a novel of homicidal sexuality: others find in it only the noblest aspirations of their own souls. In these higher voltages of the spirit one is creating at levels both above and below the consciously worded thought or the consciously planned act. The totality of him goes forth and exerts itself on the totality of other personalities. They will respond at that level to which they are attuned. Perhaps this is what we mean when we say that we are not influenced by what a man says, or even by what he does...
Some trivial incident involving Pozdnyshev's wife-like drinking her tea too noisily-makes him "loathe her as though she were committing some hideous crime." In passage after passage, The Kreutzer Sonata reveals Tolstoy's disgust with marriage, which he felt was Sonya's way of gaining power over him. It is nothing but "legalized prostitution," says Pozdnyshev. Sonya's anger and humiliation were compounded by the fact that she had just borne her 13th child...