Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...
...England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...
Nozze di Figaro (Wed. 2:30 p.m.. MBS). Act II of Mozart's masterpiece by short wave from England's No. 1 country-house music festival at Glyndebourne...
...MOZART: DIVERTIMENTO No. 15, IN B FLAT MAJOR (K. 287). (Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta; Victor: 9 sides.) A less distinguished solo performance than Joseph Szigeti's (TIME, May 2), but a sharply focused orchestra part makes this a better all-round recording...
...MOZART : SONATA IN D MAJOR FOR TWO PIANOS (K. 381), and CLEMENTI: SONATA No. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR FOR Two PIANOS (Grace Castagnetta and Milton Kaye; Timely Recording Co., 1600 Broadway, Manhattan: 6 sides). Mozart has been recorded by bigger names, but seldom as well. Clementi, Mozart's contemporary, has been added for contrast...