Word: mozartian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional opera he has yet composed. Based on the 1955 novel by David Garnett, a member of the Bloomsbury group, Aspects is an intimate chamber work that examines the lives and loves of a small circle of friends. "Aspects will come out closer in scale to a kind of Mozartian piece," promises the composer. "It will require from me a very firm technique, and the scenes will have to be far more set pieces of drama than anything I have done. So it is another move along...
Musically Phantom is at once more sophisticated and less hummably memorable than most of Lloyd Webber's shows. There is no song to compare with Memory in Cats. Instead there are sequences that verge on opera, the most ambitious being a quasi-Mozartian septet. Unfortunately, the wit and scholarship of his tunes are nowhere echoed in Hart's lyrics, which oscillate between the banal and the impenetrable...
...recipient of fellowships, grants and a National Book Award. He recently returned from a month-long tour of China as guest of the Chinese Writers Association. Once he might have declared the experience groovy. Now he calmly brings the news: "In private the people I spoke with have clear, Mozartian minds. In public they are silent...
...Broadway, Shaffer's play was an eloquent tragicomedy swathed in theatrical sorcery. Events in the crisscrossing lives of the two composers were summoned up as spirits-real, distorted or imagined-out of the crumbling mind of Salieri, a man convinced that he had murdered Mozart. Weaving Mozartian facts into the Salieri fantasy, Shaffer conceived his play uniquely for the stage. Surely there was no reason, no excuse for turning it into a film...
...whole sections, transforms Mozart's father from a hectoring apparition to an onscreen tyrant, and provides a thrilling new climax in which the dying Mozart dictates his Requiem to a Salieri racked with guilt, jealousy and awe. If the operatic excerpts occasionally impede dramatic flow, they capture the Mozartian spirit as well as comment, with typical Forman bravura, on the theme of an oaf who makes miracles with music: in the Don Giovanni parody, a dove flies out of a horse...