Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is played throughout the film. Appropriate, yes. But after a while, it gets boring. The film's real music is in the language. Swedish sounds lyrical and Widerberg uses it well, especially in the exchange between Sparre and Elvira as Sixten holds the pistol to her head, ready to shoot...
...composer's romantic temperament asserted itself more freely in the other works on the program, which he also conducted. His Mozart Symphony No. 40 exulted with bravura, mystery, and finesse, focusing on large forms, rather than individual phrases. The mood was thus more consistent, but some of the lines and ends of phrases got lost, creating an occasional lack of definition within small sections...
...Mozart is always under-rehearsed. Bowing discrepancies and half-forgotten repeats are the intonation, balance, etc-the HRO acquitted itself admirably...
Miss Luis Vosgerchian will be the featured soloist. The program also includes Brahm's Symphony Number 4 and Mozart's Symphony Number...
...when Wagner and Verdi had conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet to be the Milton Berle of music...