Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contemplation of anything intelligent -- it need not be writing -- helps the mind through the black hours. Mozart, for example; music like bright ice water, or, say, the memory of the serene Palladian lines of Jefferson's Monticello. These things realign the mind and teach it not to be petty. All honest thought is a form of prayer. I read Samuel Johnson ("Despair is criminal") and go back to sleep...
...MOZART MAVEN...
...great pleasures of this year's Mozart bicentennial will be Mitsuko Uchida's performances of the composer's 18 piano sonatas in a series of five recitals at New York City's Alice Tully Hall between now and April 21. She will also perform some of the sonatas in other cities, including Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and Pittsburgh. Uchida, 42, plays her specialty with a remarkable combination of energy and tenderness, a considerable rhythmic freedom and a lovely tone. This spring Philips Classics is rereleasing her recordings of these sonatas, along with a splendid new recording of Mozart's piano concerti...
...While Mozart's lyrics do not match those of 2 Live Crew in their offensiveness, some of the issues are similar. While no one speaks of banning Mozart, The Harvard Gazette chose not to print the "licking" excerpt, instead choosing a tamer quote and calling other lyrics, in the librarian's words, "guilelessly explicit." The Crimson may struggle less with such issues. Still, we think every newspaper would perform a valuable service by fully and unabashedly informing its readers of Mozart's silly...
...full knowledge of Mozart's other, more sensual side serves to reinforce the idea that a few poorly conceived pieces of questionable taste do not impugn the value of his or her entire body of work...