Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storage this past winter. "I think this is the right time," he said, when he revealed their existence. "I'm sick of watching those other ones." True devotees greeted the news of the cache as if it were the discovery of a tenth symphony by Beethoven. In September, Showtime, the pay-cable channel, will begin running weekly collections of the newly released sketches, which vary in length from seven to 45 minutes; a year or so after that, Viacom will put them into regular syndication...
...made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...
...piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That nut's a genius...
...parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults the sacred memory of Beethoven, saying, "He is one composer whose reputation is based entirely on gossip." Coming from a man who raised imprudence to an even finer art than his pianism, those words have the clear ring of conviction...
...waited to be invited. He is the first extraterrestrial to visit our planet in response to a summons from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which since 1977 has careered through the heavens carrying recorded greetings in 55 languages and a few alltime Top 40 tunes by such as Bach, Beethoven and Chuck Berry. Problem is, this Starman (Jeff Bridges) didn't R.S.V.P. Without so much as a by-your-leave, he has crash-landed in Wisconsin and now has three days to get to Arizona, where the mother ship will pick him up, like Junior after the sock...