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...next piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (the "Haffner"), formed a striking contrast. By the clever concert arrangement, one could easily discern the differences between the two pieces and thus fully appreciate the latter, with its beautiful complexities of form, broadened musical imagination, and different instrumental voices. The orchestra conveyed these developments superbly. The symphony was named after Mozart's childhood friend Sigmund Haffner, to celebrate his elevation to the nobility. Appropriately, the first movement is full of pomp and flair, with dramatic octave leaps and running scales. The Andante is warm and almost romantic in style, though filled with...
From his podium at New York City's Lincoln Center last week, Raymond Leppard gave a brisk downbeat and drew forth the majestic D that opens the "Haffner" Symphony. In doing so, he began the gala observance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 235th birthday. He also began an unprecedented Lincoln Center extravaganza: to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death by performing during the next 19 months every note he ever wrote...
Leppard's lively performance of the "Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...
...Mozart bicentennial ranges far beyond Manhattan. On the same day that the "Haffner" was resounding in Lincoln Center, Mozart's "Prague" Symphony poured forth in Prague, and nine other European cities chimed in with concerts of their own. Then all 10 performances were broadcast in sequence over a continentwide network, so that Europeans with grandiose Mozart plans of their own could start their celebrations...
...call abstinence a fantasy is to stretch even the idea of fantasy," says Steve Anderson, an English teacher at Manhattan's Seward Park High School, who last year taught a student who had lost both her parents and a brother to AIDS. Agrees Debra Haffner, executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.: "It's immoral to say 'Just...