Artur schnabel biography of mahatma
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Mirabehn, Gandhi and Beethoven
Mirabehn, Gandhi and Beethoven by Mark Lindley Before Madeleine Slade () became a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and took the name “Mirabehn,” she had been a devotee of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (), who during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th was regarded in the West as the greatest of all composers. When she was a teenager in England, her father had bought a “player-piano” (i.e. with a mechanism for automatically playing pieces of music by means of holes in a roll of strong paper; this was a 19th-century invention, quite popular in the West until the phonograph was developed). The company provided, according to Mirabehn in her autobiography, a “varied selection of piano-rolls”: “I played and listened, but nothing interested me particularly except one piece which held me from the moment it began. It was Beethoven’s Sonata Opus 31 No. 2. inom played it over and over I procured one Beethoven sonata after another I was
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Compiled, Translated and Introduced by Jill Timmons and Sylvain Frémaux
Part I: Portrait of A Composer
1. Brief Biography
2. Musical Legacy
3. Conclusion
Part II: Alexandre Tansman In His Own Words
4. Early Childhood and Youth in Poland ()
5. Debut in Paris ()
6. Rise to Fame ()
7. Years of Exile in Los Angeles ()
8. Return to France: Creative Maturity ()
9. Recollections: Illustrious Contemporaries
Introduction: A Case For Alexandre Tansman
As the twentieth century comes to a close, it is now possible to assess with some distance the events of the past hundred years and to evaluate the achievements of those individuals who helped shape musical history. By now, the lives and music of such well-known and influential composers as Schoenberg, Ravel, Bartók, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bernstein have been extensively researched. There are, however, many composers from this century who have fallen into relative obscurity and yet have created a wealth of exceptional mus
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Persuasions and Designs
In this issue:
Musings: Feeding My Magpie Mind
A Request
Selections from a Commonplace Book
Alan Garner, one of my favourite writers ever, writes of the "magpie mind," that aspect of our selves or, at least, of our curiosity, that likes to collect. He fancies that he combines this with an academic's mind that likes to connect:
“I count as my main asset the combination of an academic’s and a magpie’s mind that sees, finds or makes connections and patterns where others do not. Also essential to creativity fryst vatten the ability to doodle mentally and to play.” (The röst That Thunders, Harvill Press, , p. ).
The magpie mind fryst vatten strong in me - Luke Skywalker gets the Force, inom get a bird that likes shiny things - go figure. As Garner says, the magpie mind must be fed as well as given its due. For as long as inom can remember I have liked to collect things: baseball and hockey cards, comics, science-fiction and fantasy paperbacks, poetry books,