Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heard any Haydn recently, or any light opera? Seen any bizarre comedy, or a touch of burlesque? If you have or haven't, it's no matter. There's a little of everything in the Lowell House production of Haydn's House Afire, and it makes for one of the most delightful evenings of entertainment to hit Cambridge in a long while...
Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F Minor (RCA Victor) is only slightly less inspired. He brings a kind of melancholy serenity to Mozart and a flashing excitement to Haydn's study in manic-depressive music; in a single phrase, his mood shifts from joy to despair...
...group will perform Haydn's Symphony No. 44, known as the "Mourning Symphony," and will give the first local performance of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.1 (actually his 13th...
...sound, but no one is eager to tinker with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...
...played the four movements of a Mozart divertimento the girls buzzed. At the end of each movement they applauded loudly. After playing some Hindemith, the quintet demonstrated their instruments and let some of the girls try them. Then the quintet finished with Ibert and the San Antonio chorale of Haydn...