Word: fantasia
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...first season as impresario of off-Broadway's Public Theater, Producer Joseph Papp has rocked his subscribers with the original production of Hair (see above), shocked them with a freewheeling fantasia on the theme of Hamlet, and socked them with the allegorical, enigmatical Ergo (TIME, March 8). The theater's latest offering, spiky satire from Czechoslovakia called The Memorandum, winds up its season with a nervous laugh...
...MOZART: FANTASIA AND SONATA IN C MINOR AND SONATA NO. 8 IN A MINOR (Westminster). Daniel Barenboim, the peripatetic Israeli prodigy who, at 24, travels all over the world meeting the insatiable demand for recitals, plays three of the most brilliant, and saddest, of Mozart's works for the piano. The album offers great music well played-which is something to cheer about...
Debussy'sSonata in G minor, written shortly before the composer's death, is a piece of varying moods, ranging from slow, nostalgic passages to hard metallic ones. In this performance, the most impressive sections were the frequent fantasia-style passages; the entire second movement was excellent. The more romantic phrases sounded a little...
...BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (3 LPs; RCA Victor) have recorded with zest and polish an evening of music ranging in time from Mozart's sunny, transparent Quartet in D for Flute and Strings to the late Irving Fine's romantic and unsettling Fantasia for String Trio (1957). Most fetching of the four contemporary works is Elliott Carter's Woodwind Quintet, with its light melodic fragments breezily tossed and tangled like crepe-paper streamers...
...bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions of children the world over grew up convinced that Disney wrote as well as drew such tales as The Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. And there are grown men and women today who, recalling Fantasia, cannot hear the Dance of the Hours without visualizing the delicate prancing of Disney hippos and elephants, or The Sorcerer's Apprentice without seeing Mickey Mouse trying to dam the flood wrought by a many-splintered broom, or A Night on Bald Mountain without shuddering at Disney's crackling...