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MATHER HOUSE DINING ROOM. Peter Warsaw '72, pianist, performs works of Schumann, Debussy, Geoghehan, Schubert...
...highs. He also changed the entire look of German symphonic life by using Mozart and Beethoven as the backbone of the repertory (instead of local celebrities like Anton Eberl and Karl Reissiger). Haydn and Handel were also often in his programs, along with such composers as Schubert, Liszt, Rossini, Schumann. And, of course, Mendelssohn. Moreover der Herr Direktor once and for all dispensed with the practice of inserting divertissements by harpists and the like between the movements of symphonies...
...Chopin. The Reformation Symphony, for example, is religiosity at its most cloying, and Elijah, tender as its pastoral moments are, simply does not convey the full might of its subject. What Mendelssohn did know about was order, proportion, logic and joy. He was a better orchestrator than either Schumann or Brahms. In some of his juvenile operas, he experimented with leitmotifs-long before Wagner. His greatest innovations came in the realm of orchestral color-ruddy brass canvases, fragile wood-wind-and-string pastels that give the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, for example, such perpetual freshness and surprise. Today...
...auspicious moment in history for the birth of composers. Within a four-year period (1809 to 1813), in addition to Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner and Verdi were born...
LOWELL HOUSE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM: Daniel McCrimons performs Bach, Chopin and Schumann...