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...naked heart without show," but he was also a puzzling mixture of parsimony and generosity, arrogance and humility. Once, as the Austrian Empress and her attendants approached, he muttered to Goethe: "Keep your arm linked in mine; they must make room for us, not we for them." Yet in 1812 the man who had liberated music from its classical bounds, and raised composers to something more than servants of a court, wrote to a friend, "Do not rob Handel, Haydn, Mozart of their laurel wreaths: they deserve them; I have not yet earned mine...
Grownups got Bastien and Bastienne, a one-act operetta composed when Mozart was twelve; a mime and dance based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; a playlet, Mozart Visits the Empress; and a ballet, The Dying Swan, featuring a puppet Pavlova to music by Saint...
...expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last Supper. In the role of the lascivious Empress Poppaea, Patricia Laffan has nothing much to do but hold a pair of cheetahs on the leash, but she is certainly one of the sights of Rome...
...first time since ex-President Ulysses S. Grant visited Emperor Meiji in 1879, American guests were entertained in Tokyo's imperial household with top diplomatic honors. To celebrate the peace treaty, Emperor Hirohito invited General Matthew Ridgway and his wife to a royal luncheon, at which Empress Nagato set the conversational tone with a little story. The day the treaty was signed, a white crane had alighted in a treetop on the palace grounds. The Japanese took this, she said, as a good omen for peace...
Switch in Biarritz The Empress Eugenie always loved Biarritz, and Biarritz felt the same way about Eugenie. Until World War II, a bas-relief sculpture of her stood on the town's seaside boulevard; then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They...