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MOZART: REQUIEM (L'OISEAU-LYRE). Christopher Hogwood fervently leads Musicologist Richard Maunder's new edition of the unfinished masterpiece...
Dictators' pastimes are far more striking because they often contrast with the rulers' normal behavior. Nero, no fiddler incidentally, did play the lyre and sing to vast, appreciative audiences. Hitler was a painter who started out doing postcard-size works of art and, as his career improved, worked his way up to large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi...
...heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were now discovered because someone happened to overhear Lady of Spain. Still, the mind is cheered by the image of Amin on his accordion, Nero on his lyre, Hitler whistling away. Where a band like this would play offers problems, but its repertoire would surely include I've Gotta...
...left lyre behind and began seeing Palestinian troops again, lunching in the shade. Shortly thereafter, we stopped. "This is it," said the P.L.O. official who was acting as our guide. It did not look like much: a simple, hutlike shelter such as shepherds use. Guards watched as we bent to pass through the door. Stairs led down several levels to a vast underground complex with thick, reinforced-concrete walls...
Mozart: The Symphonies, Salzburg 1766-1772, Vol. 2 (L'Oiseau-Lyre, 3 LPs). The latest in the Academy of Ancient Music's revelatory Mozart cycle, on period instruments...