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...works. Modern orchestras and opera companies employ an essentially uniform approach to music, no matter what its provenance. But the rise of original instrument groups, working in a repertory that now extends from the Middle Ages to the early romantics, has gloriously revealed the crucial distinctions that separate, say, Mozart and Haydn from the 19th century. Vive la difference...
...surprising, then, that CBS decided to re-release Gould recordings of Romantic-era music as the third volume of its ongoing Glenn Gould Legacy series. (The first two volumes contain music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...
...cagey survivor. Prisoners in states of unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart and Haydn. He kept a handwritten copy of the Book of Revelation in his boot, and that became his freedom...
...late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have to tell people what it means," observes Luca, who is Rumanian born and Israeli raised. "The wonderful thing about playing it is that it is analogous to Mozart playing his works in Vienna. It is part of the lingo...
...twelve years old and his junior high classmates were struggling with book reports, Kurzweil developed a computer software package that was distributed by IBM. At age 17 he won a Westinghouse Science Talent Search award for a computer program that could write music in the style of Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven...