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...WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IS A DIRTY OLD MAN (Epic). Mozart has acquired a pristine aura of impeccable glory, but, like Abraham Lincoln, he loved dirty jokes and puns-which he enjoyed setting to utterly fastidious music for the eternal amusement of the world's musicologists. Now ordinary fans can snicker along, for this album provides everything from Leek mich am Arsch! Goethe . . . (Kiss My Behind! Goethe . . . ) to Liebes Mandel, wo ist's Bandel? (Lovey-Dovey, Where's My Glovey?). The English translations may be rough, but then so are the sentiments; Norman Luboff directs a crew...
...most famous example: Shakespeare), and like Shakespeare they are constantly picking up new styles and moods. In their musical celebrity world they are exposed to new contacts: their new-found acquaintances range from Ravi Shanker, who is teaching Harrison the entirely non-Western discipline of the sitar, to the Amadeus String Quartet (unsurpassed even by the Budapest), which recorded the background for "Eleanor Rigby" and which has leant the Beatles some of the Western tradition. Lennon and McCartney read voraciously, and they might borrow inspiration as easily from Eugene O'Neill as from Dylan or Ginsberg. The important thing...
BRITTEN: STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (London). Written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Purcell, this quartet is an architectural tour de force, requiring four lone instruments to construct a stately musical monument. Britain's impressive Amadeus Quartet does the job with distinction...
...surprisingly, the compositions by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Karl Amadeus Hartmann paled before the Bach and Buxtehude in Friday evening's Christmas Concert...
...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...