Thomas Beecham

The music, as well as reintroducing Florestan and Eusebius, contained secret messages for Clara which now sound like private messages for us, the listeners – as Thomas Beecham put it: "Subtle and secret phrases that each one of us feels to have been devised for his own particular understanding."

In defence of Schumann Steven Isserlis 2010

When the British government tried to ban Strauss's "Salome" in 1910, the conductor Thomas Beecham appealed successfully and led a London run that was the hottest ticket of the season.

NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2012

There were classic accounts of works conducted by Thomas Beecham and Eugene Ormandy; newer renditions featuring the conductors Osmo Vanska and Okko Kamu; copious anthologies with names like "100 Best Classical Masterpieces" and "Classical Love Collection"; and even a vintage recording of Leoncavallo's

NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2011

When Thomas Beecham went to visit Smyth in prison, he reported that "I arrived at the prison and found that noble group of martyrs, as they then marched up and down in your heart and with their war song 'March of the Women' sang, while the composer was watching benevolently from a high window and with the bacchanalian energy tact with a toothbrush beat."

feminist blogs RosieRed23 2010

Thomas Beecham loved the lighter operas of André Grétry, who flourished in the period before the French Revolution, but it was his charming pastorals that were favoured.

Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Nicholas Kenyon 2010

Marche slave, breezy and aerial enough to outdo Thomas Beecham and establish Chabrier as the boulevardier par excellence even before Poulenc.

Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

The Legend Of Thomas Beecham (The Real Story) "A new biography of Beecham, the first to obtain partial access to the family papers, reveals that many of the best-known stories are myth, born of wishful thinking and faulty memories."

ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2008