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Died. Robert Stolz, 94, prolific Austrian-born composer; in West Berlin. Once considered the musical heir of Johann Strauss Jr., Stolz wrote some 50 operettas, 100 film scores and 2,000 songs, including Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, whose tune he scribbled on a menu in the early 1930s while sitting in Vienna's famed Cafe Sacher...
Fuseli was actually neither Turk nor Jew, but Swiss; he was born Johann Heinrich Fiissli in Zurich in 1741, the son of a portrait painter. By 1825, when he died, he had become one of the most distinguished exiles in English art history; he was even buried next to Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. Paul's. Last week, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death, a show of more than 200 Fuselis-oils, engravings and drawings-opened at London's Tate Gallery...
...Valentine started the onslaught with the first foil match in the third round. Fencing against MIT star Johann Akermann, who is nationally ranked in Sweden, Valentine won the bout, which gave him a stunning 3-2 upset...
...pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...intended for an 80-piece orchestra, and most modern orchestras play it with even larger ensembles. The Bach Society's half-strength rendition was surprisingly effective, especially in the last movement. Haydn wrote into the piece a part for solo violin which was intended for his friend, the virtuoso Johann Salomon. Lynn Chang assumed Salomon's part, and elicited all of its show-off excitement. The French hornists, though, had a tough evening. Amy Larkey and Susan Grody struggled with a part which demanded entrances with very high notes. The critical attack on the first note is harder...