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CABOT LIVING ROOM. Music for Woodwind Ensembles by Mozart and Beethoven. Free. Saturday, February...
DUNSTER LIBRARY. Brandenburg Party. Open sight-reading of Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 and Symphony No. 30; and Bach: Concerto for Two Violins. Bring your music stand. Sunday, February...
Christ Church Harvard Square, February 3rd, 5:00 P.M., Mozart, Telemann, and Buxtehude, with Evensong; Marian Ruhl and Richard Crist, soloists, with Ruth Belvin, Diane Pettipaw and Daniel Abbott, strings, assisted by the Choir...
...decadent composers who are the mainstay of the classical repertory. Beethoven, said the newspaper, was a "German capitalist," while Schubert's gloom resulted from his oppression by Austria's feudal rulers. If he had been a good Marxist, Schubert would of course have finished the "Unfinished" Symphony. Mozart is scarcely worth considering. Nothing he ever wrote compares with The White-Haired Girl, the propaganda-laden Chinese revolutionary ballet...
...Peking seriously espousing such nonsense? Well, not exactly. The propagandists' real target, some Western observers speculated, was not Beethoven, Schubert, or even poor Mozart, but someone much closer at hand. Though Sinologists differed as to who the target might be, one school went so far as to speculate that it was none other than Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the self-anointed cultural overseer of the People's Republic. Chiang Ching had warmly welcomed the Western orchestras and had specifically asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to include Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the "Pastoral," in its program...