Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plans called for a Midsummer Music Festival, but New Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman...
...lush beauty of nature, Tanglewood added the spare beauty of modern architecture in 1938 with the 6,037-capacity Music Shed. This is Conductor Erich Leinsdorfs first season in the Shed, and he made his opening-week debut both bold and orthodox by performing a clutch of Mozart concertos and divertimenti never before played at Tanglewood. Says Leinsdorf: "There is nothing wrong in playing Kismet or Rosemarie for a while, but when it becomes a MUST, a forced alternative to digging into the late Beethoven quartets, then we have a big problem...
...Face on the Barroom Floor, a new face commissioned to please the tourists who, in turn, prefer to believe that it is the 19th century original. Despite the diverting hoopla, some 27,000 opera lovers are buying seats this season to hear those authentic old Western masters Mozart (Don Giovanni) and Verdi (Il Trovatore...
Institute for Humanistic Studies, where one may attend two-hour discussions on Aristotle's Ethics or Herman Kahn's thermonuclear theories. The music is just as uncompromising. A typical program may consist of a Bach suite, a Mozart piano concerto, and a trio of demanding modern works by Darius Milhaud, conducted by the arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start...
There was an excellent degree of co-ordination between the chorus, the conductor, and the orchestra during the last three movements, the "Sanctus," Benedictus," and "Agnus Doi." These three movements are rumored to be the compositions of Mozart's pupil, Franz Sussmayr, rather than of the master himself...