Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beethoven, Variations on a theme by Mozart. "La Ci Darem La Mano" (arranged for string orchestra by Michael Press...
...barn dances that are wanted at present, but the waltz, polka, quadrille, gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest...
...Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
...parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius...
...writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. This composition must be for at least four voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment. Either secular or sacred music may be written, but if the sacred type of music is chosen, the type exemplified in Cherubin and Mozart is especially recommended in Mr. Boott's bequest to the University...