Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between Dallas and its bitter rival, Fort Worth, 35 miles away. One afternoon last month Hendl, in overalls and a farmer's straw hat, conducted a successful children's concert in Fort Worth. That evening, in white tie, he gave their elders a solid program of Bach, Mozart and Stravinsky. Forthwith, Fort Worth Flour Miller Edwin Bewley Jr. persuaded a group of his fellow citizens to form a Fort Worth Symphony Society. Its purpose: to promote further concerts in Fort Worth by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
Strauss was by no means happy with the way conductors handled Beethoven and his favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel...
...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...
...Pierre Barricelli '45, 3G, Howard Brown '51, Caterina Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...
...Thanksgiving Day, Harry Truman had worked hard all week cleaning up his desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father beamed down as she sang Mozart's Dove Sono and Glazunov's La Primavera. She was called back for three encores, sang one-Smilin' Through-directly at her parents. "I wept," said proud Harry Truman unabashedly. "I almost tore up two programs in the excitement...