Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his nine years as leader of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Krips won a wide reputation as an espe cially authoritative spokesman for Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms, but he is more concerned with his approach to the whole repertoire than with mastering any special part of it. "We must apply the technique of the singer to the instruments," he says. "A musi cian has to feel that he is sing ing, supporting the music by the breath. The breath is your soul. The breath is your life-the only divine part...
...talk sense to Cardinal Innitzer (the real-life churchman who welcomed Naziism to Austria prior to the Anschluss of 1938). The episode ends ludicrously: as Brownshirts riot around Innitzer's palace, Soprano Wilma Lipp and 200 members of the Wiener Jeunesse Choir huddle primly in the plaza, singing Mozart's Alleluia without skipping a half note. Will miracles never cease...
Cast Iron & Silver. Bored with string quartets and big orchestras, Barshai set out to build an 18th century chamber orchestra that he hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...
...beat), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922, taught Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, directed the Pittsburgh and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before going to the fading Chicago Symphony in 1953, which he whipped into one of the world's finest ensembles, with a repertory that ran from Mozart to his countryman Kodaly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Amazing, what a bunch of highly intelligent boys can do when they set their minds to it. Last night, for instance, in one and the same concert, they produced two entirely different programs. The first rested on names like Mozart, Beethoven Carter, and Des Pres. The second also returned to an age that is past, but not the one of Beethoven and Des Pres; it recreated the Harvard and Princeton that were small, select prep schools for the ministry and the law, where the boys went out on the field Saturday afternoon to have a good tussle, and the night...