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...Western music lovers, Beethoven may have written "the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man," as Novelist E.M. Forster felicitously phrased it. But to China's propagandists, Beethoven, along with Schubert and Mozart, was just tinkling out a tune on that dreary old capitalist cash register. "There are some people who to this day are still uncritically introducing these things to our youth," huffed Peking's People's Daily last week. "If we go on like this, where will our young people...
...enthusiastic response given three visiting orchestras from the West last year, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peking has launched an attack on the 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...
...Rosenbloom does course work for his independent study in grand style: a full performance of two Mozart piano concerti. Conducted by David Evans, the only person at Harvard besides Gerry Moshell with a private string orchestra. DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Chamber music of Debussy: Trio for flute, viola and harp; Schubert; Stravinsky. Free. Friday, November...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR, Four-hand piano recital, the Sobol sisters playing Mozart, Schubert, Hindemith, and Dvorak, Sept. 20, 8:30, free...
...Zurich, I would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...