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...their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program, the Beethoven Ninth or "Choral" symphony, which is religious in feeling even though it uses Schiller's "Ode to Joy" as a text, and the Bach "Magnificat...
According to the Sociology professor, the Germany of Schiller was one of the most peaceful nations that ever existed, and merely because militant nationalists have gained control of the Reich today is no reason to assume that aggression is a characteristic of the German people...
Suffering themselves from such methods, the people who produced Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven and Einstein are in danger of becoming as brutalized as their captives. For those people who still, thanks to their fortitude or their good fortune, remain outside the Nazi web, the lesson is painfully clear...
...more need peaceful, respectable persons listen to the barbaric, Hunnish melodies of Brahms, Bach, Beethoven Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Strauss; no more need our ears be offended at Christmas time by the hellish notes of Stille Nacht, the voice of Schumann-Heink; no more of the militaristic preachings of Schiller, Goethe, Luther...
Long-distance autopsies are risky. French Scholar Denis Saurat enraged the high-minded by "demonstrating" that blind John Milton (like deaf Ludwig van Beethoven) suffered from hereditary syphilis. Diagnostician Moorman finds Milton tuberculous. Other famous consumptives: Pope, Dr. Johnson, Shelley, Goethe, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Chekhov, Dostoevski, a brow-wrinkling list of other writers and thinkers. Doctors suspect that tuberculosis develops genius because 1) apprehension of death inspires a burning awareness of life's beauty, significance, transience, 2) the bacillus breeds restlessness and an intoxicated hypersensitiveness...