Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSTRUMENTAL SIGHT READING, Bentley R. Layton '63 conducting, of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in Aggasiz Living Room...
Although all was not yet harmony in the opera house-Arbitrator Goldberg still has not decided how much extra salary the Met will have to pay its orchestra this year-there were still more hopeful omens on the second night of the season. In Mozart's Cost Fan Tutte, Connecticut's Teresa Stich-Randall made a long-overdue Metropolitan debut as Fiordiligi, displayed the purity, fullness and control that have won her ardent fans in Europe and on records. In the same opera, Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27, last year's Metropolitan Opera Auditions winner, filled...
...Crawford, who has a pleasant voice, was the soloist in a secular cantata, Non sa che sia Dolore, attributed (maliciously) to J. S. Bach; the Orchestra's strings played Purcell's Fantasia on One Note with as much life as a bagpipe; and everybody fretted over the overture to Mozart's Impresario like gummed velvet...
Swan Song. To start the season, Director Carl Ebert chose Mozart's Don Giovanni. The performance was to be a swan song for Ebert, who fled Germany in 1933 to become a U.S. citizen, returned to Berlin in 1954 to take up his old job as director of the City Opera. He was scheduled to retire after opening night, and he left on a high note. At opera's end, the audience enthusiastically applauded Native Son Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following...
...hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting, which end in travesty. The films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high art...all this is destructive in the same measure that it is communicative...