Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOZART: CLARINET QUINTET IN A, AND OBOE QUARTET IN F (Deutsche Grammo-phon). The literature for these instruments, two of the most important in the orchestra, is very limited. These pieces are among their chief showcases. Lothar Koch plays the oboe with spirit in the early, conventional Mozart quartet. Karl Leister is oddly restrained and diffident in the clarinet quintet, and is often overshadowed by the other players, especially Siegbert Ueberschaer's viola. All the performers are with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...
...Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop was ordered to drop the word happiness from its name, in keeping with the new austerity...
...when Jay Hoffman and George Schutz speak of their work, there is a decided absence of self-serving tone. Hoffman, 32, and Schutz, 28, comprise one of the busiest, most imaginative and most unorthodox management teams in New York. They have just wound up a highly successful month-long Mozart Festival at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall under the sponsorship of Lincoln Center. Skeptics would have considered Mozart box-office suicide during a dreary New York summer. Yet the festival presented 26 consecutive concerts featuring more than 100 orchestra, chamber and solo pieces-all without top-name performers...
CARL WEINRICH: MOZART SONATAS FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). Mozart served a short stint as official organist for the Archbishop of Salzburg. His 17 organ sonatas, though intended as insertions in the Mass, are less religious works than graceful incidental music. Organist Weinrich understands this, and gives a luminous, flexible performance...
...landscape to make his own private outdoor museum. In his workshop studio, he preferred the garb of a professional welder, though he could also work with tools as delicate as the dentist's drill. At night, he would turn gourmet, top off the evening with cigars, some Mozart, and occasionally dipping into James Joyce. Possessed by work and his own projects, he would grumble: "It always astounds me that I can make something that somebody doesn't understand...