Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week, Japan's Seiji Ozawa, 32, conducted programs of Rossini and Hindemith in Canada; Korean Violinist Young Uck Kim, 20, performed Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas; and an eight-year-old Japanese cherub named Hitomi Kasuya played part of a Mozart violin concerto in Albuquerque and in South Euclid, Ohio...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IS A DIRTY OLD MAN (Epic). Mozart has acquired a pristine aura of impeccable glory, but, like Abraham Lincoln, he loved dirty jokes and puns-which he enjoyed setting to utterly fastidious music for the eternal amusement of the world's musicologists. Now ordinary fans can snicker along, for this album provides everything from Leek mich am Arsch! Goethe . . . (Kiss My Behind! Goethe . . . ) to Liebes Mandel, wo ist's Bandel? (Lovey-Dovey, Where's My Glovey?). The English translations may be rough, but then so are the sentiments; Norman Luboff directs a crew...
Brave Popularizers. Rousseau apart, the brio of the age sings through its people-Gluck and Burke, Goethe and Charles III, Sheridan and Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great-who occupies a chapter of special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot...
...part of his preparation for the cover story, he listened intently to some 40 Beatle and other pop-music albums. As much as he liked the music, Porterfield found the large dosage almost benumbing. "Every three or four albums," he admitted, "I had to listen to a little Mozart to refresh the tympanic membrane." What he heard, though, confirmed his view that the Beatles' influence on pop music is loud, deep and lasting...
...EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.).* Live from the Boston Symphony's summer home in Massachusetts' Berkshires, Erich Leinsdorf conducts the orchestra and Guest Solo Violinist Itzhak Perlman in selections from Mozart, Dvorak, Tchaikowsky and Saint-Saens...