Word: hindemith
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George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) is listed just north of the lamb chops. Beethoven is down by the shrimp, Hindemith to the left of the lobster. This unique wedding of calories to composers occurs on the menu of a restaurant in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, and it is dedicated to an intriguing proposition: if jazz can move into the concert hall, classical music can move into...
MUSIC BY TORELLI, HAYDN, HINDEMITH and others Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. in Concert Room 26, the Fenway. This is the third of the Boston Conservatory Fenway Series...
...Hindemith's performance on the vielle, it was as masterly as might be expected from a man who can play every instrument in the orchestra and who was once considered one of the world's leading viola virtuosos (as a soloist and a member of the Amar-Hindemith Quartet...
...Although Hindemith rarely gets a chance these days to play the role of Compleat Musician, he manages to keep briskly occupied. Since leaving the U.S., where he taught at Yale, he has lived with his wife in Switzerland ("We live in the mountains; where, is a military secret"). He teaches at the University of Zurich, retires from the world for five months each year to compose. Among the works proposed: an orchestral piece for the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Next summer he will conduct the Santa Fe Opera in three performances of his opera News...
Some critics believe that most of Hin demith's later work fails to measure up to the vigorous and imaginative music of the 1920s, in which he so brilliantly enlarged the neo-classical movement. But Hindemith rarely listens to the critics. In all the 20th century, he insists, there are only two men who deserve the name Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. And perhaps, his admirers believe, Paul Hindemith...