Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become one of the greatest spectator sports since strip poker." Last week the great ballet master materialized for the first time this season-in the title role of his ballet Don Quixote-fluttering the audience like a stone thrown among pigeons. Sighed Barnes: "A legitimate thrill such as hearing Mozart play Mozart...
RECORDINGS Elvira, Meet Wolfgang It is impossible to predict where a composer's next record hit will come from, even if the composer is Mozart. A case in point is Deutsche Grammophon's 1965 release of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, played by Hungarian-born Pianist Geza Anda. In three years it had sold a mere 2,000 copies in the U.S. Then a passage from the recording turned up as a recurrent, haunting theme on the sound track of the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, which opened in New York City last October. Deutsche Grammophon slapped...
Suddenly the pianissimo sales grew into what for a classical record amounts to a forte. Although until recently the film was playing-in only four U.S. cities, the album has now sold 15,000 copies. This week Mozart's "new" hit climbed to No. 21 on Billboard's chart of bestselling classical records. And the surge is spreading to other versions: RCA's five-year-old issue, played by Artur Rubinstein, is selling four times faster since Elvira arrived...
...woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress, Sidney Shallop, has never known anything more moving...
GEORGE SZELL: MOZART PIANO QUARTETS (Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues...