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Word: flute (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will mount a newly designed production of The Magic Flute for its sole contribution; the Philharmonic-Symphony will offer two Mozart programs and play his music a bit more than usual the rest of the season. Closer to the composer's home territory, the activity gets more feverish. Vienna, in fact, has had to organize a central Mozart Festival Bureau, as a kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rough Year for Mozart | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...requires the artist, while sober, to behave as if drunk. The damn-the-torpedoes dean of the school is Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who signs himself "O.K." and is proving very much O.K. in Salzburg this season. Kokoschka's sets for a festival performance of Mozart's Magic Flute were the hit of the show (TIME, Aug. 8), his summer art school in a fortress overlooking the city was going strong, and an exhibition of his last three years' work drew raves from the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: O.K.'s O.K. | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Europe's midsummer sun shone on a thriving crop of music festivals last week. Highlights: a new Wagner production, a brilliant new staging of Mozart's Magic Flute and an American harpsichordist playing Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Top Trio | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Salzburg's Mozart. Salzburg put on a winning Magic Flute, aided by the close harmony between Conductor Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and by Stage Director Herbert Graf's adept use of the vast, open-air Felsenreit-schule* stage. But everyone agreed that it was the sets that gave the new Flute its real magic. Mozart's mystical fantasy of free masonry unfolded among three Egyptian temple arches of flesh-pink, violet, cerulean blue, turquoise, cobalt and yellow. The middle arch was framed by black sketches of symbolic heads, and its opening revealed projected landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Top Trio | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...design the show out of friendship for the late great Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who had asked him to do it. Salzburg honored Artist Kokoschka by staging a simultaneous one-man show of his paintings. The press agreed that he was "the real leading actor" in the new Magic Flute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Top Trio | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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