Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depends, of course: Bad taste in what? There were Nazis who came home from work at Auschwitz and listened to Mozart. An elegant emperor may also be a sadist or an idiot or a weakling. If good taste were the qualification for leadership, the greatest Presidents might be interior decorators...
What happened? The pieces selected for this collection -- on Mozart, F.D.R., J.F.K., the media blizzard that can confuse rather than inform, the political and intellectual ideologues who reduce philosophy and art to pseudoscientific theory -- were written over the past three decades and are too separated by time and subject to provide a coherent analysis. For that the reader should turn to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique...
...ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA will perform works by Mozart, Schuller and Telemann at Sanders Theatre Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and information...
...Arte Chamber Orchetra. Performsworks by Mozart, Shostakovich and Rouse. SandersTheatre, 3 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and moreinformation...
...permissible. Stylistically unpredictable and resolutely uncompromising -- there are no "Socialist Realist" elements in his music, no compositions celebrating factories at work or peasants at play -- Schnittke's music is fundamentally deconstructive. It uses the past as raw material for the present, often referring to or quoting directly from Bach, Mozart and other Germanic composers and then tearing them apart in a destructive analytical frenzy that would have terrified Freud. "I attempt to compose symphonies," Schnittke wrote in a program note to his Third Symphony, "although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless...