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...Reisinger Museum, Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave., announces a series of record music concerts in its garden, 1-2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Each Wednesday, musical compositions related to art will be heard. This week: Bartok, Quartet no. 3-4; Beethoven, Septet; Mozart, Piano concertos no. 19 and 23; Handel, six concerti grossi; and Mozart, Divertimento no. 3. Next week: Clementi, Piano sonatas; Bartok Two Portraits for Orchestra and Deux Images (Wednesday); Beethoven, Quartets no. 1-2; and Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra...
...claimed he sang with "the interest-never the principal," of his voice, it is apparent in the dry, papery quality of the upper registers, that some of the principal is gone. But the phrasing and intonation are as exact as ever, and the range of styles is impressive: Bottegari, Handel, Monteverdi, Mozart, Alfano...
Stravinsky created a unique form in Odeipus Rex, for its drama has neither opera's action nor the oratorio's formal units. Yet the music is crammed with references to this style or that, to Handel and Verdi, little touches that jar the listener at first but later seem almost ironical...
...recognition for native composers (Williams, Delius), and introduced such composers as Dvorak, Smetana and Strauss to British concert halls. Perhaps no other conductor of his time performed Mozart with comparable fluency and grace, and few could equal him in his communion with those other 18th century masters, Haydn and Handel. But apart from being a conductor and impresario. Beecham had another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve...
...lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time it has ever left Ireland...