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...AMADEUS by Peter Shaffer...
...company often turn up on their own in outside productions. Ian McKellen, an actor of formidable power who left the company in 1978, has since starred in the London production of Martin Sherman's Bent and will appear on Broadway this December in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, directed by Peter Hall...
...road, appearing with regional symphonies or with the TASHI Quartet, which he helped to organize. His ambition now is to do for the clarinet what Casals did for the cello: transform his instrument into an eloquent solo performer. "Last spring, when I was playing in Vancouver with the Amadeus Quartet," says Stoltzman, "a 90-year-old man came backstage and said, 'That's the first time the clarinet ever sounded human to me.' That's what I want-to make music that will liberate people." - Annalyn Swan
...climbed above the trees when he pulls on his cardigan sweater in his small study and greets Brzezinski, who arrives with a sheaf of overnight cables summarizing the hopes and despairs of 4 billion people. Three presences fill the study - Carter, Brzezinski and Wolf gang Amadeus Mozart...
...Librettist Calzabigi, he has provided a text for a youth who once was one of Austria's most promising child prodigies, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Their work, La Finta Giardiniera, was staged in Munich last year, and Mozart hopes to find sponsors for further productions. Mozart has been performing publicly on the harpsichord and violin since the age of six, but his remarkable gift seems to be turning mainly toward composition. Still only 20, he has already written ten Masses for his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a prodigious total of seven other operas, 18 violin sonatas...