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Mozart: La Finta Semplice (Dorothea Siedberg, Edith Oravez. George Maran, August Jaresch, Alois Pernerstorfer: the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum conducted by Bernhard Paumgartner; Epic, 2 LPs). Mozart's first opera here gets a busy but clear-lined first complete performance on records. Child Prodigy Mozart handled Carlo Goldoni's boisterous love plot like a man who has been there before-a breathtaking performance by a twelve-year...
...Salzburg, a town that never favored Mozart's music while he lived-and which he could not abide either-spent the day in commemorative folderol, and Austria plans a whole year of Mozartish festivities. Salzburg's musical coup last week: a rare performance of his opera La Finta Semplice, composed when Mozart was too young (12) to understand its labyrinthine plot or its Italian words. Chancellor Julius Raab pledged that his country would never let another promising Austrian musician starve...
What tickled Terre Haute-and two dozen other towns-was an English-language version of a little-known Mozart opera called Merry Masquerade (originally La Finta Giardiniera). Written when the composer was 18, it lampoons 18th century operatic oddities in their own terms: a nobleman thinks his wife is dead and plans to marry a pretty young thing who is actually in love with an untitled poet. Everybody else in the story is in love with somebody else, including the wife, who is really alive but disguised as a lady gardener in order to win back her count. Most everyone...
Filling out the feature roles are Miss Marjorie Samsel of Boston University's School of Music, who appeared in a recent B.U. production of Mozart's "La Finta Giardinera," Frederick H. Gwynne '51, Jean Campbell '50, Sheila Walker '52, Gordon W. Philip '52, and Norman R. Shapiro...
Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...