Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, for a pal in the R. A. F., Shaw filled in this personal report: "Favorite color: scarlet. Favorite dish: bread & water. Favorite musician: Mozart. Favorite author: Wm. Morris. Favorite character in history: Nil. Favorite place: London. Greatest pleasure: sleep. Greatest pain: noise. Greatest fear: animal spirits. Greatest wish: to be forgotten of my friends...
...program will include the "Coronet Quintet" by Mozart, the "First Movement of the Quartet" by Debussy and the Haydn Quartet. The affair will be informal, and ladies may be invited to supper and the concerts...
...handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where Mrs. Hoover and many another notable heard them sing with expert unity and phrasing, saw them enact neatly and unaffectedly Bastien & Bastienne, a fragile little opera which another Austrian boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote when...
...Mozart was never one of the Wiener Sängerknaben but Haydn and Schubert had their first musical training in the choir school as did Clemens Krauss, natural son of an Archduke and a ballet dancer, who now directs the Vienna Opera. Haydn and Schubert had to leave the choir when their voices broke. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated although that was common practice elsewhere in 17th and 18th Century Europe. With the fall of the Habsburgs the choir disbanded, but six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized...
...subject of Professor Ballantine's talk will be "The Salzburg Mozart Festival of 1932." After his talk, E. C. Turner will play the following cello solos: "Adagie in C Major" by Bach; "Aubade Provencal" by Couperin; and "Beccheriut" by Krefsler...