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...Build a City. There was a program of musical animals (Saint-Saëns' "Cuckoo," John Alden Carpenter's "Krazy Kat"), one of dances. There were picture-book slides to illustrate Debussy's Toy Chest and the country where prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. Pianist Maier's assistants were all children, but none had prodigious talent. Little East Side children from the Music School of Henry Street Settlement piped earnestly and well about the Hindemith city where children held all the offices (the Mayor was 7) and grown-ups were of secondary importance...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...
This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
...Salzburg, birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, rock of classicism, the Leningrad Operatic Studio, last week, ironically burlesqued his Bastien et Bastienne. That pastoral operetta he wrote when he was 12 (he died in 1791, at 35). It has three characters-the shepherd sweethearts and a patriarch. The Russians last week added 13 more and played the piece with machinery of production grossly exposed...
...season in Manhattan. It happened last week after the second act of La Rondine, in which Miss Bori sang with triumphant charm. It was also the last week of the season; but before Miss Bori packed her trunks, she did something that would have pleased the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was not easy, for Mozart operas have become so unfashionable that the Metropolitan dismisses him with one performance a season. But Miss Bori was allowed to sing Despina in his Così Fan Tutte ('Tis Thus They All Do). There was no denying that the story...