Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TANGLEWOOD, Lenox, Mass. The Boston Symphony, under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf, opens its eight-week season on July 5 with an all-Mozart program and ends on Aug. 25 with an evening of Brahms...
...MOZART: THE IMPRESARIO (RCA Victor). Few new releases could possiblv hove a narrower appeal than Mozart's small squib about the tribulations of a Rudolph Bing of the 18th century. Commissioned by Emperor Josef II for a party, Mozart received a generous 50 ducats (about $300) for the work. In an effort to make it a "20th century transplantation," the libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart...
...destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic pleas for concerts. Backstage, greeting her well-wishers, Beverly sings the obligatory arioso...
...named Karl Munchinger, who is aboard for the whole trip, keeps grumbling about the recorded music in the salons and corridors. But Daddy and I really do enjoy hearing Bach and Beethoven wherever we go. All he says is "Encores aweigh!" Have to run now. Herr Kempff is practicing Mozart, and we are all invited. Much love...
Whatever his ultimate commencement status, Saturday night marked the peak of Levin's undergraduate career: the fruition of a long love affair with Mozart's music accorded a spontaneous standing ovation by the audience. And that is something very few soloists beside the Archbishop of Canterbury can count as part of their memories of Cambridge. One only hopes that circumstances do not abort Levin's promise even earlier than that they did that of Mozart...