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  • Diary entry for 1927-01-10

    ... Beethoven and Brahms; this performance was palpably spoiled by the conductor Fock who, in order to to impose inelegant bodily gestures on the audience, made far too much of a business, without any understanding; like an animal, he let himself loose on the ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-03-13

    ... . Morning, radio: Beethoven, Concerto in G major, played by Weingarten, under Reichenberg; the pianist's performance unmusical, not a single emotion shone through – already the beginning passed judgement on the whole: the three eighth-notes in the first bar ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-10-09

    ... morning, a quick walk out of doors. From 1 o'clock until 5:45, Vrieslander, for lunch and afternoon snack. He performs his songs – they afford me a surprise! First of all the circumstance that, even after renouncing the past, he maintained and practised ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-11-01

    ... Klenau, the Symphony in G minor by Mozart (only the last two bars of the Minuet were striking, as a result of a modest ritardando; everything else proceeded metronomically). Mozart's Requiem, performed unsuccessfully. ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-06

    ... major for organ (also in Part IV of the PartitaClavierübung), performed by Schütz, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, conducted by Kabasta. All the beauties, both melodic and harmonic, are of no avail: there is no trace of compositional technique in Bruckner. ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-21

    ... exhibition of cactus (2 shillings): Lie-Liechen is not exactly over-enchanted. En route, Lie-Liechen buys three brass saucers (4.30 shillings). After errands, home at 6 o'clock. Radio: Christmas Oratorio under Nilius: one of the best performances of this work ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-23

    ... sweet man from Bruneck. Mrs. Medelsky reads a Christmas story by Hans Thoma very well – in between, songs by Floderer, performed by Jölli – utterly irresponsibly badly! Then Aufnahme – los!, a film recording! Another "pastoral play" – more presentation ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-02-01

    ... that sum. Radio: Reichwein: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony – musically, a thoroughly ignorant performance. Even at the very beginning, bar ? was omitted, on account of a false reckoning of the meter. ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-03-12

    ... Pentecost. After lunch, a walk, smoking a cigar. Georg shows me the score of The Flying Dutchman, which he bought on account of a performance in Baden. I do say: with the money he has saved on me, the nephew is able to buy himself a motorcycle, a score ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-03-18

    ... nothing liberating to commend themselves; conversely, the vision of wealth is uplifting, even if it belongs to someone else. At 7 o'clock we try to listen to performances by Sonja Palm of Brahms songs, but we must put the receiver away on account of its ...

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